Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal struggle boiled. Curran had the support of Vice President Jack Lawrenson and soft-spoken Treasurer Hedley Stone. Curran's enemies are led by three smart Communist-line operators: Vice President Joe Stack; Jamaican Negro Secretary Ferdinand Smith; weary-looking Vice President Howard McKenzie. Stack, Smith and McKenzie have one objective: to toss Curran out and realign N.M.U. solidly with Bridges and the Party. Curran, who once thought he could run the Reds-and sometimes even run with them-knows that this time he will be lucky if he survives them...
...week (including expenses). But Sam Boal is glad to give Mrs. Hunkle her due. Says he: "When I used to write those brilliant pieces about politics, nobody would ever acknowledge that I had written anything. But when I write about that old bag we get a stack of mail...
...daily Individual progress is apparent. Whenever things start looking overly bright, however, Coach Ulen, pulls himself up with sobering thoughts of Athletic Director Bop Kiphuth's powerhouse down in New Haven. By a combination of committee rulings on old unofficial records and some fast driving, Al Stack, Paul Girdes, and Heuber of Yale now possess the Olympic championship record in the medley relay...
...peacetime problem is almost as bad, for the radioactive by-products of atomic power plants are exceedingly hard to dispose of. They cannot be blown up a stack near settled communities; rain may bring them down again. They cannot be run down sewers or even into the sea. Probably the only safe disposal place will be radioactive "cemeteries," carefully fenced and guarded...
...smashing atomic nuclei, creating hundreds of radioactive isotopes so "hot" that invisible specks of them could kill. All around were vigilant Geiger counters ready to raise the alarm if too much radiation leaked. But the only sound was the hum of the ventilating system carrying deadly gases up the stack...