Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free to give her any name he chooses, but the Navy thinks Williamsburg a "nice Colonial name" and hopes it will stick...
...Government's dampening answer to the "demob" cry came from pale-eyed, mild-mannered Minister of Labor George Isaacs. The Government, he said, would stick to a modified version of the plan drafted by his potent predecessor, Ernest Bevin, six months ago: 1,110,000 men would be released this year, "specialist workers" could go at once. The rest would have to wait...
...that Japan has been conquered by scientific, mechanical and military skill, has the U.S. the political skill to make the victory stick? Andrew Roth, an expert on Japan, doubts...
Liberally spicing their narrative with Eaton's peppery comments. Historian Louis Wright and Librarian Julia MacLeod (both of Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.) have written a brisk account of the first puny U.S. efforts to carry a big stick in world affairs. During the six rollicking years that he carried that stick, Consul Eaton had enough trouble, and made enough comments on it, to build up quite a legend...
...economic collaboration between the U.S. and Britain. "But," he wrote, "if the United States as seems at present likely-insists during the next few critical years on returning to the unfettered ups and downs of 'free' monopoly capitalism, the socialist governments of Europe and the Commonwealth must stick together in cushioning their planned economies against destructive economic shocks from that quarter...