Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money may not be the only cement to make G.I. matrimony stick, admitted Mrs. Eisio-Stapleton, marriage-counseling budgeteer, at the beginning of her talk to the Law Wives' Club yesterday afternoon...
...Franklin Roosevelt. Among Government jobs he faithfully served at: adviser on the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Board. Among jobs he was mentioned for but did not take: president of the New York Stock Exchange, governor of Puerto Rico. Max Gardner, big. pink and amiable, does not stick his neck...
...foreign trade chief, who enjoys Stalin's personal favor but has little party following, and a dark horse, Nikolai Bulganin, the political boss of the Army. Molotov, Beria and Malenkov are loosely grouped as the reactionary anti-Westerners. But as long as Stalin lives the whole gang will stick together, and Zhdanov, who was once against mass purges, will willingly follow the Politburo's cultural purge wherever it leads...
...Infecting himself with Egyptian flukes (220 of them, by a count of stings), he hastened to Washington, urged Public Health Service officials to let him turn his schistosomes loose in snail-populated waters to see whether they could thrive in the U.S. Officials recoiled in horror, told him to stick to the laboratory...
...Picasso's 31 illustrations, on exhibition in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week, proved again his capacity for contradicting himself and making it stick. All 31 etchings (reinforced with aquatint) were reasonably naturalistic and most of them were minor masterpieces as well...