Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inquest may serve to answer the unanswered questions in what is be coming a peculiar and in some ways tragic episode in American political history. Or it may be that those who might have the answers will stick by the explanations already given, however implausible they seem. For the moment, all of the guests at the Chappaquiddick party continue to preserve what seems to be a preternatural silence...
...custom that had to be dropped was the kiss of greeting between members. "Charlie Lucky [also known as Salvatore Luciana or Lucky Luciano] put a stop to this and changed it to a handshake," Joe Valachi told Author Peter Maas. " 'After all,' Charlie said, 'we would stick out kissing each other in restaurants and places like that...
...long, hot summer in school? Few American schoolchildren would be expected to stay away voluntarily from the softball lot, the beach, the fishing hole. Yet, in Atlanta, where few schools are air-conditioned, almost one-third of 38,000 eligible high school pupils have volunteered this year to stick to their books through the sweltering heat of July and August...
...paradoxical mixture of avarice and altruism in the corporate newcomers. The younger men, who have grown up in an era of affluence and clearly enjoyed the luxuries of suburbia, claim to reject traditional incentives. As Gordon Grand, president of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., says: "The days of the stick and carrot are gone...
...free municipal bonds and long-term growth stocks, and setting up trusts for his two children. Estate advisers even thought of future grandchildren and provided trusts for them in the doctor's will. "By creating charitable trusts," says Vice Chairman Johnson, "it is possible to make money stick to a family's bones decade after decade...