Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paused in the shadow of Widener to apply a roll-on deodorant stick, and the past (like so much Proust) loomed up with the moist of memory. For four long years Portia had pursued the stuff and stench of animal husbandry. She had mastered the chemistry of manure and the physics of the plow. She had emerged from North Dakota Ag (crossing a calf with a jumping bean for ready-made cheese) summa cum laude. And all those years she had nourished a dream...
Since that incident there has been no cool between Police Commissioner Kennedy and the New York City Youth Board. Says one board official bitterly: "All Kennedy wants is to swing the big stick, arrest more kids, get more cops, bust up gangs. Where's his respect for the human being?" Contends another critic, Columbia University's New York School of Social Work Professor Alfred J. Kahn: "The conduct he encourages in his officers in effect challenges the objectives of our statutes and substitutes his personal philosophy for that...
...Labor Party (to which his brothers Michael and Dingle belong) not to rock the boat with an all-out attack on the government's plan. At a meeting of Labor M.P.s, red-haired Barbara Castle, a fiery left-winger, made an impassioned plea for the party to stick by its earlier pledge to allow Cypriots to determine their own future, i.e., allow the Greek Cypriot majority on the island to vote for union with Greece. Governor Foot emerged from the meeting not fully reassured...
...Greeks and Turks not to reject them out of hand." And if agreement was reached, added Laborite Jim Callaghan, "we would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have of course no special pride of authorship which will make us stick obstinately to this or that detail of the plan. We shall certainly be flexible." Labor did not want to upset the mood by forcing the issue to a vote...
Dille wanted Yager to plan his adventures well ahead, submit proofs in advance, stick to "scientific probability," and cut out flighty nonsense, e.g., mist-men who appear and disappear at will. "We argued and talked about it," said Dille, "and, believe me, there are times when a syndicate president would like to put an artist into orbit...