Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Party still prepared to stick to democratic processes...
...subject to it). Another was that Britain's tax, although set upas an import duty, seemed in effect an income tax-and therefore in violation of an Anglo-American agreement designed to prevent double taxation on incomes. Hollywood felt that perhaps Britain could not make the tax stick...
...Trade Union Council. Asked Attlee: would the unions again accept wartime regulations forbidding workers to leave essential industries; would they please stop being stubborn about keeping able and willing foreign workers out of the factories? The union leaders agreed. But they still had to make that agreement stick with their membership, including a sizable bloc of Communist shop stewards...
Once, when Toscanini was conducting the orchestra, he noticed that Katims was not sitting in the first violist's chair. He asked why, and was told that Katims was off conducting elsewhere. "Why should anyone want to wave a stick when he can play the viola like that?" said Toscanini. "Anyone can wave a stick...
...Writers should stick together like wolves or gypsies and they are fools to attack each other to please the people who would exploit or destroy them. Naturally I know the weaknesses of my fellow professionals but that information is not for sale nor for free...