Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Elizabeth, announced Buckingham Palace, would stick by the old wording in the Book of Common Prayer's marriage service. Others might now "cherish," but, future Queen or not, she would promise to "obey" her husband. And the details of the wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials...
Hope of seeing 15 ex-paratroopers out-jump all comers right smack into the Yale Bowl this November faded last night when Jay Skinner '48 said the band would stick to drills and music...
...shouting field hand. This one examines the struggles of a group of ex-slaves who are trying to hold on to Civil War land grants on an island off the Georgia coast. Without money or political know-how, and bedeviled at every turn by villainous planters, the Negroes doggedly stick to their freedom-loving principles as the forces of greed move in to destroy them...
...cried: "We've been trying to steal a coach from another university. Now another university is trying to steal our most important man. We can't go on without Bob Sproul!" The band played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. A blue-&-gold banner implored: STICK WITH us, BOB! When Sproul promised that "Your wishes will not be ignored," cheering undergraduates raised the roof. The Columbia job went instead to Ike Eisenhower, whose doctoral degrees are also honorary...
Said George Martin, a wiry veteran of some 25 years at Ford: "I felt the same way when I first started here. But here I am. The young fellows think they'll go on to better things. But things like debt and family illness can stick you like it did me. Twenty years from now, most of them will still be here and wishing they had the pension...