Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show opens in a stiff-backed summer camp at Brunswick, Me. (in the original, the scene was Thebes), where a young matron named Eurydice Orpheus is shamelessly cuckolding her husband, a struggling violinist. Her lover: one John Stick, a dull poet. Enter Pluto, in the guise of a soft-drink peddler, who offers the lovers a permanent visit to Hades. Sample of his spiel...
Captain Austin J. King of San Rafael, Calif, banked his heavy-bellied C46 over Seoul airport one night this week, pushed the stick forward and prepared to land. Suddenly the pilot noticed that the plane's hydraulic system was out of order, and that one of the landing wheels was stuck in its casing. King pried open the trap door in the floor of his cockpit, wriggled into the narrow passage in the wing of his aircraft and tried to lower the wheel by hand. For 90 minutes he wrestled in the darkness of the wing while his copilot...
...make an arrest. One police captain who had denounced Gurgel's murder to his chief was even disciplined for insubordination. But at week's end no cop had yet dared to erase from a plaster wall in the square the words someone had dabbed there with a stick dipped in Reporter Gurgel's blood: HERE DIED A JOURNALIST DEFENDING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS...
...first, her face tense with effort, the Babe found nothing but traps and trouble. She looked tired, and between shots she sat and rested on a red leather shooting stick. For the first nine holes, it was a poor (for her )45. In trouble, the Babe always relies on a classic remedy: "I just loosen my girdle and let go." After chiding herself good-naturedly-"I've seen shots today I've never seen in my life"-the Babe loosened up, let go and began playing the kind of golf that won her four "world championships...
...report sharply rejects the notion that a Communist teacher can keep Communism out of the classroom and just stick to his subject, quotes several impressive opinions in support of this point. "The Communist teacher . . . must not only make himself an agent of the class struggle," said Dr. Dodd (herself a teacher for twelve years at New York's Hunter College), "he must indoctrinate " other teachers . . . and he must see that their students are indoctrinated in the class struggle." Added Economist William Withers of Queens College: "The typical action of the Communist teacher is to become a popular person with...