Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noel Coward, back in the U.S. on another show-business trip, put his stick away and walked upright after a shaky spell with rheumatic fever...
Bull Moosers. The best try was made by the Progressives of 1912. Ex-President Teddy Roosevelt thought better of his resolution not to seek a third term, unlimbered his big stick and set out after the scalp of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. Declaring that he "felt like a bull moose," Roosevelt shrilly attacked "moneyed privilege" and "special interests," polled 4,126,020 popular and 88 electoral votes to Taft's 3,483,922 popular and eight electoral. But Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with a popular vote of 6,286,214-less than Taft and Roosevelt combined-walked...
...lineup reshuffled since the Boston College clash before Christmas, Berg plans to stick with Ed Smith, Bill Wegner, and Pat McCormick at forward, center, and guard respectively, although the two spots left vacant are subject to change...
Would the U.S. people stick to their course? The opinion of a visitor may be more pertinent than the guess of a native. This week, in the New York Times maga zine, Barbara Ward, foreign editor of London's Economist, who had made two trips to the U.S. in 1947, wrote: "I believe that the American people-the only people in the world who thought of an ideal first and then built a state around it-will prove in the long run happier, freer, and more creative when they carry that ideal of a free society out into...
Would labor stick by such words if industry did what it could to roll back prices? No one could know for sure until the step was taken. Nor was there any certainty that industry alone-without the help of the farmers-could roll back prices much. But now that Wilson had told of his plan, it looked as if it was up to U.S. industry to tell what it would...