Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Pepper and Holland were still racing breathlessly across Florida, trying to make their charges stick before the primary election day next week. Florida's politicians gauged it a close race, with Claude Pepper given a chance. It was enough to give Washington the shakes...
...ration Nationale in the isolated hamlet of Kasba Mechta (TIME, June 10, 1957) changed his mind. As the first French officer to arrive at Kasba Mechta after the massacre, Olivier Dubos was so deeply shocked by what he saw that he wrote his family: "I must stick it out here. We have to set up a post here if we want the surviving women and children to stay. Otherwise they will starve...
...which the Freudians had gone too far). Though Archiater Jung refused to commit himself publicly, best evidence was that he favored the more progressive wing, feared that his movement would die if it became too introverted and parochial. Quipped one delegate: "We made real progress-we didn't stick to Jungian terms and talk only about archetypes. I believe someone even mentioned the word penis...
Jekyll & Hyde. Although Diane's firm, Lawson & Lawson, is the only one of its kind, other agents, mostly women, work the same beat for specific shows. And they stick to much the same criteria. "The ideal daytime quiz couple," says one of Diane's competitors, "comes from Indiana. The boy is 26, the girl 24; they are white and Protestant and they have two kids. Of course, on the intellectual evening shows, like Twenty-One and The $64,000 Question, they can't be so choosy -they have to have some brains...
...first, bestselling novel, Knock On Any Door (1947), Motley set out to demonstrate that the path from tenement to electric chair is paved with society's inattentions. The logic was sometimes shaky, but Motley's hoarse bellow of rage was convincing enough to make the indictment stick. In the current novel, his third, Motley stacks his evidence even higher, but he protests too much, and the bellow of rage has cracked to a querulous whimper...