Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth ballot Laniel had actually lost strength, but came back strong on the sixth and seventh. On the eighth, grimly determined to stick it out to the end, he was only 22 votes short of victory. Outside the brightly lighted palace, a policeman jerked his head toward it and grated: "That ends it-you'll never again catch me putting my vote in a ballot box." The newspaper Le Monde complained: "Whoever is elected will be badly elected...
Engine Cleaner. Shell Oil Co. brought out a new motor oil, which, it claims, will dissolve the deposits formed in engines when antifreeze solutions leak into the oil and make valves stick. Price...
...Welcome Home. In Brisbane, Australia, a court ruled that William Marsden was justified in thrashing his nine-year-old son Ian Charles with a stick after the boy announced his father's return from work by shouting: "Here comes Old Baldy...
...talks and make sufficient amends, his aides are ready to go on. Dulles had a special reason for sending Dean to Panmunjom: he wanted a fresh reconnaissance of Chinese Communist diplomacy. Dean's counsel: "The best approach to the Communist mentality is to get a reasonable proposal, and stick...
...think Harry Truman did a great disservice in the way he replied to Brownell's charges. This is the time to stick to the central issues: preservation of Constitutional safeguards and avoidance of un-Constitutional, un-gentlemanly, and un-Christian conduct on the part of persons in public light...