Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare changes were tacked onto a bill providing a general 121% increase in Social Security benefits; they reflect the gut feeling of many Congressmen that large numbers of welfare recipients are either too lazy or too unmotivated to work. Their remedy: a big stick and a small carrot...
...seashell, a spear and an olive leaf) as a cost-cutting flag of convenience. Evidence to back up the rumors is as elusive as the eel for which French explorers named Anguilla 400 years ago. The only hard fact is that the Anguillans seem determined to make their revolt stick...
...split today that the "moderate" Winter should be at the top of the balloting, somewhere near the 30 per cent mark. In the runoff, however, it is almost unquestionable that the more militant segregationist--Williams, or possibly Barnett--will win. Both Barnett and Williams have tried to stick the "liberal" deathmark on Winter...
There were thus ample signs that the war may prove to be a long one, though the "battles" so far have been rather modest skirmishes. The federals, their lines overextended in places, were tending to stick to the roads, while the Ibos, on home ground, were more and more fighting a guerrilla-like war. The Biafrans hope soon to have sturdier stuff with which to fight. They have ordered more than $2.8 million in modern military equipment from abroad, and it is slowly seeping through the federal blockade...
Psychological Advantage. Yet there have been some victories. When Rockefeller cracked down on illegal gambling in Hot Springs, the lawmakers responded with a bill to legalize casino operations. Rockefeller vetoed the measure and made the veto stick despite a threat to override it.* He won a much needed increase in teachers' salaries, a raise in welfare payments, creation of a department of administration to modernize operations of the state's 187 agencies, and establishment of a commission to study constitutional revision...