Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Distwacting. In Detroit, Patrolman Louis Schlosser was ordered to stick to one type of whistling after the city council got a written protest from distracted office workers who complained: "One minute the whistle will go tweet-twoot-twoot-tweet. Just as you get used to that it will go twoot-tweet-tweet-twoot...
Foreign Commissar Molotov was tougher than ever before, and more tightly bound by his instructions. U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes offered him a compromise (virtually excluding France from Balkan discussions) which was generous to the point of humiliation. Molotov cabled home for instructions, got an answer: "Stick to your brief...
...PeeWee the Great came in one Sunday and stayed for a few weeks. Three or four Pepsi's flavored by the smoky atmosphere were sufficient to send Mr. Russell to dreamland, so the drummer invested in a small bell which gave with resonance when tapped by a drum stick. When it was time for the clarinet sole, the bell was hit, and PeeWee would come out of his trance for the required chorus...
...news I'll tell you." He seemed to have meant what he said. The Truman press conferences had settled down to brisk once-a-week affairs (Roosevelt usually met the press on Tuesdays and Fridays). Otherwise, there was not enough news around the White House to make a stick on Page 8. What the First Lady and her daughter did had become nobody's business but their...
...carries the load of running G.M. with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...