Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beck added blandly that he was a "man of peace," and had no desire to revert to "the law of the jungle." He did not expect that other unions would "infringe on our jurisdiction." But he said, "if a union that should stick to clerks tries to get our warehousemen (a remark directed at the powerful C.I.O. Amalgamated Clothing Workers), we'll step in and organize the whole store to protect ourselves...
Fortunately, the cartoons and live action are kept separated, but there are moments when Disney appears to be matching his studio-made folk songs (the best are Stick-To-It-Ivity and It's Whatcha Do With Whatcha Got) against Burl's classic Billy Boy and Sourwood Mountain. Since a fair portion of Disney may someday become U.S. folklore, this idea is neither pretentious nor uninteresting...
...problem of whether to keep missionaries in Communist-dominated areas. The delegates found they were in almost complete agreement. No denomination intended to order its missionaries to evacuate. In all cases the decision was being left to the missionaries themselves. And for the most part, missionaries were electing to stick...
Whatever happens, missionary boards will give missionaries every encouragement to stick it out-even if they should be forbidden to preach from their pulpits or teach in their schools. Said Dr. Frank T. Cartwright, China secretary of the Methodist Church's Division of Foreign Missions: "Some of the conservative boards may feel that doing mission work under the Communists is compromising with the Devil, but most of the larger boards feel that if we are allowed to teach Christianity, or even live a life of Christian witness alongside Communism, we would do it. We believe Christianity can stand...
...spell, Legionnaire Aumont kills his pal in a fit of jealousy. When he in turn gets buried in a sandstorm, Antinea is left to a pulsating game of chess with the household embalmer, whose tongue has been cut out-because he talked out of turn. For determined viewers who stick it out to the very end, the newsreel may still save...