Word: sticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tulsa last week tinsel decorations stretched across the main streets, and in Oklahoma City shoppers shivered against the cold. Outside the cities and towns, over stick-straight highways and the winding side roads, fast automobiles and trucks sped on late-night runs from close-to-the-border cities in Missouri and Texas. Artfully dodging police prowl cars, they slipped into Tulsa and Oklahoma City bringing bootlegged Scotch at $7 a fifth, vodka at $5.50 and gin at $5. Admiring the tinsel, feeling the cold, buying the whisky (in gift decanters), Oklahomans knew that the Christmas season was in full swing...
...critics asked, is a museum the proper place for such a show? The New York Herald Tribune's Emily Genauer said the exhibit made her feel she had attended a dinner party with guests from Mme. Tussaud's waxworks. Said she: "Museums ought to stick to their originals. There is no shortage of them, old and new, in America." The New York Times's Howard Devree called it a "neon age substitute" and objected to the "inescapable tang of reproduction...
...overcome criticism heard in his first term that he failed to seize personal leadership in working with his party in Congress? With a wisp of exasperation, Ike diagrammed a wise man's views on leadership. "I am not one of the desk-pounding type that likes to stick out his jaw and look like he is bossing the show. I would far rather get behind and, recognizing the frailties and the requirements of human nature, I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him. he will stick. If I scare...
...Senate. If Mike Mansfield becomes the Senate's Democratic whip, his soft, low-pressure approach may work against him; the job sometimes requires a wheeler-dealer with a big stick. But Mansfield has impressive support. Texas' Johnson is strongly behind him. So are many Southern conservatives (Mansfield was a special protege of Georgia's retired Senator Walter George). So are such northerners as Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Illinois' Paul Douglas. If he can persuade the dissident Democrats to work together, onetime Private First Class Mansfield may become a Senate...
...Bolsheviks!" he declared pugnaciously. "We stick firmly to the Lenin precept-don't be stubborn if you see you are wrong, but don't give in if you are right." "When are you right?" interjected First Deputy Premier Mikoyan-and the crowd laughed. Nikita plunged on, turning to the Western diplomats. "About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us. don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not. history...