Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychologist, I cannot refrain from commenting upon "The Carrot and the Stick," the article from the London Economist which you quote approvingly (TIME, July 15) as "some simple, understandable words to the British people...
Certainly man is motivated by fear of hunger and desire for gain-by the stick and the carrot if you will. But the oversimplification and the error is the assumption that these are the necessary motives to human social action as they may be for donkey biological action...
This year Unitarian Park, bald-pated at 73, retires at last from the active ministry. He will spend more time with his eight grandchildren and further develop his amateur virtuosity at printing ("I am an old-fashioned type plugger"), carpentry ("I stick to plane surfaces, straight lines, and right angles") and photography. But he and his wife plan to remain in Boston. "Whenever the congregation wants me," said he last week, "they'll just have to whistle...
July and August, especially, are months when ink gets more fluid and it is necessary to cut down on the thinner; when high humidity makes the absorbent paper stick to the rolls and break; when artists have trouble with their art, photostats get off the beam (expansion-contraction again), and what the sweating printer (working in temperatures up to 100 degrees) has to say about it all is unprintable...
...Bethune, sit right down. Now tell me about your people.' ") Occasionally she tried to boss the Boss-shaking her fingers under his nose to demand more funds for a pet project. When the President died, Mrs. Roosevelt sent one of his canes to Mary McLeod Bethune-a carved stick with Franklin Roosevelt's initials on a silver band. Says Mrs. Bethune: "I swagger it sublimely. It gives me strength and courage and nothing to fear...