Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suave salesmen will describe to her the merits of an English shooting stick. They will talk up the all-purpose economy of a hand-carved duck decoy which, used for hunting in season, doubles as a door stop in winter, spring, and summer. On their shelves also is a cellophane-wrapped circular bread board, strapped to which are a bottle of sherry decorated with a bunch of grapes, a wedge of cheese, and a loaf of crusty bread...
Henderson added that rationing could take effect within two months, price control "almost overnight." Any time a government wants to fix prices or groups of prices and make it stick, it can get reasonable control...
...Joan with a Hockey Stick," hee-hawed London's Daily Express. But the Manchester Guardian disagreed: "She plays the part without deforming it, with a candid, almost childlike delicacy. . . ." And the News Chronicle admired her "exquisitely spiritual rightness...
Mobilization. But would there ever really be a state for the Jews to name? Could U.N. make its decision stick? While city crowds celebrated, Arabs ambushed two buses in an orange grove southeast of Tel Aviv, sprayed them with gunfire. Five Jews died, 14 were wounded. Arab prisoners attacked Jews in Acre prison. In Damascus, Syria, Moslem youths stoned the U.S. Legation, tore down the U.S. flag, and then looted the Russian-Syrian Cultural Center...
...current French government represents the first real attempt by European democracies to organize a nation along U.S. State Department policy lines. It is the first and crucial test of Secretary Marshall's plan to dehydrate world communism. If a rightist government can be made to stick and operate efficiently in a country that traditionally mixes its politics with its wine, then the prospects for successful remote control of other countries such as Italy look very bright...