Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soundness of [my] views ... I will continue to urge and argue far more behind the scenes than in front, but, nevertheless, I will argue . . . as long as I have strength to do it." (On Capitol Hill loyal Republicans groaned; they would like Ike to carry a big stick while he talks softly...
...consider dependable, reliable [ballistic] missiles . . . They are intricate beyond human belief." Also beyond belief, according to Kindelberger, is the state of the Pentagon. "It reminds me," said he, "of a skein of yarn with which the cat has been playing for years. It is badly snarled and loose ends stick out all over. . . It cannot be untangled by wrapping more yarn on the outside. . . It is a big, vast, intricate thing, and I don't think you can wind another committee or another czar or another group on the outside of a tangle and straighten out the tangle...
...years, canceled customs' duties on imported gaming equipment. Under certain conditions it offered to back casinos in nightclubs or hotels worth more than $1,000,000. The Minister of Labor, whose brother turned up this year owning a cut of one big new casino, obligingly ruled that roulette stick-men and craps pitmen were "technicians," admissible to Cuba for two years...
Pass: The thing to do is to stick her into third, or at least second, and ease her off gently, without too much oomph...
...middle of the second period, the game had deteriorated into a name calling exhibition, with the highly amused Harvard fans on one side against a solitary Tufts rooter on the other. When a loose puck flipped off Bob McVey's stick and hit a Tufts player in the face, the Jumbo fan had to be restrained from going out on the ice after the Crimson players...