Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caniff plotted his new characters as carefully as any fiction writer. "The guy, now, had to have a name that would stick," Caniff explained. "It had to be three syllables, Dead-eye-Dick, or John-Paul-Jones. . . . Steve-Canyon. Not a real name, or one you could turn into a dirty word. But a guy who'd have a girl in every port, and could do all the things that a youngster like Terry couldn't. Why, Terry couldn't even smoke. And with people in the Orient we couldn't use those casual, normal insults...
...found, in less amiable sessions, a prevailing impression that the Russians had out-bargained him on the atomic-control agreement. Before Byrnes left for the January U.N. meeting in London, President Truman reminded him that Vanden-berg's support was necessary to make Byrnes's policy stick with the Senate and the country. At the London meeting Bevin still carried the ball for the West and Vandenberg was still dissatisfied with Byrnes. In his report to the Senate on the U.N. meeting, Vandenberg lavished praise on Bevin, Bidault and others, pointedly omitted any reference to Byrnes. Vandenberg then...
Bigger & Better. On the whole, Jimmy had done well; he had found that the way to get along with the Russians in international conferences was to state U.S. principles and policies clearly, and to stick to them; the Russians respected that. But the rivalry between the U.S. and Russia was not confined to the council table. It existed more importantly in the real world of men & women for whose allegiance the two social systems bid against one another...
Washington society learned that it would have to continue without Margaret Truman for "the rest of the winter. She let it be known that she intended to stick to her voice study (with opera as the goal), and would do the. studying in Manhattan...
...from. According to Dr. H. C. van de Hulst from Utrecht, The Netherlands, the average cosmic particle is about one hundred thousandth of a centimeter in radius and deadly cold, only a few degrees above absolute zero ( -459.72°F.). When wandering atoms strike such particles, they freeze and stick tight...