Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just stick to the politicians and the other ordinary problems which beset us human beings...
...accident that Earl Warren had been chosen to spread the gospel of friendliness, moderation and teamwork. His whole life has been geared to just those principles. An energetic, workmanlike administrator, he has always taken pains to ruffle no feelings, stick close to the middle of the road, and work in close harness with his subordinates...
...assassinate Ike. Kay apprehensively recounts: "The normal guard was doubled, trebled, quadrupled. The sound of a car exhaust was enough to halt work in every office, to start a flurry of telephone calls to our office to inquire if the Boss were all right." Ike was not allowed to stick his nose outside the compound. Finally he did, grumbling, "Hell's fire, I'm, going out for a walk. If anyone wants to shoot me, he can go right ahead...
Western scientists, approving this declaration, will follow Haldane carefully. If he goes to Prague, they will note what happens to him if he deviates from the party's scientific line. The line itself is none too clear, and devout Communist geneticists may eventually get into trouble if they stick to it. Last week Nobel Prizewinning Dr. H. J. Muller, a leading U.S. geneticist, pointed out a doctrinal time bomb that threatens Lysenko's followers. The Lysenko doctrine, said Muller, teaches that the heredity of organisms is shaped by their environments. When applied to the evolution of man, said...
...shrinking supply and enormous demand. Snapped Swift's President John Holmes: "The suit is an unproved charge, with strong political flavor. I am certain that [the packers] will be completely exonerated when all the facts are presented." The packers thought that Clark would have trouble making his charges stick. Eleven times in 50 years the Government had sued the big packers; it had won only twice. A year ago a federal grand jury in Chicago failed to indict the packers on an antitrust conspiracy after an investigation requested by Clark...