Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year, only five so far this semester. Incompatibility of roommates, he claims, is more serious than many college officials realize. More than 8% of Riverside's 1,200 dorm residents switched roommates last year and "at least twice that many wanted to move but were persuaded to stick it out." Even when switches are made, he says, "the one who is left feels rejected." He recalled a case last year in which one boy with a fetish for cleanliness hung a rope across his room to isolate a roommate, who left dirty underwear scattered about. The rejected...
...search began after two Chevrolets were sent to Consumers Union (of which Safety Crusader Ralph Nader is a director) for road testing. In both cars, the accelerator tended to stick, and this fact was duly reported to G.M. A similar complaint came from an ordinary Chevy owner...
What kept the Social Democrats upright more than anything else was Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia, which encouraged countless voters to stick with a known quantity. The chief loser was Sweden's tiny Communist Party, which normally inherits any protest votes from the Social Democrats' left. This time it was the Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg...
Byars sees no reason to limit his multiperson garments to just four wearers. For the opening of his show, he induced several hundred New Yorkers to stick their heads through holes in a "mile-long" strip of fabric and parade in tandem around the block. "You see," he exulted. "We are changing the landscape of New York!" Inside another garment, titled 100 in an Airplane, he hoped that participants would strip to the buff and sit on the floor beneath the 100-ft.-long piece of pink silk shaped like an airplane. "Over clothed bodies," he explained, "silk makes...
Under the name of the New Democratic Coalition (NDC), Gore is trying to coalesce the factions of the New Politics. If he and others can make hodge-podge stick for four years, they will probably have control of the Democratic Party...