Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uneasy. Some remembered, even, that in 1940 any suggestion that a third term might lead to a fourth term was flatly and indignantly denied. Said Franklin Roosevelt, campaigning in Cleveland: "There is a great storm raging now. . . . And that storm ... is the true reason that I would like to stick by these people of ours until we reach the clear, sure footing ahead. We will make it-make it before the next term is over. . . . When that term is over, there will be another President...
...said, 'Why yes, of course,' and as we parted Sir Eric said, no thanks, he didn't care for a stick...
...proposition that a fourth term for President Roosevelt would mean the end of the Republic. . . . "The answer to these papers' circulation . . . must be that a lot of people like these papers' editorial policies. . . . Anyway, that's our story, and we're going to stick to it until and unless it's disproved...
...moppets also contribute hundreds of little rhymes that fit Editor Botkin's definition of folklore: "The stuff that travels and the stuff that sticks." Samples : Eight and eight are sixteen, Stick your nose in kerosene, Wipe it off with ice cream...
...Three are cut from the same pattern. Their page size is the same as that of standard U.S. papers. Each costs 20 kopecks (a subway ride costs 40, a trolley ride 15). There are no comic strips, no columnists, no crime or scandal, few pictures, only a stick or so of sports news about such things as chess championships. Readers do not miss them. The newly literate Russian masses have so vast an appetite for the written word that they are fascinated by news reports which U.S. readers would find dust-dry. The most that the reader gets...