Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strike! Appeal! Within a matter of hours, the alliance of Truman Administra tion and Steelworkers' Union plunged back into the fight to make seizure stick. In Cleveland, before a labor convention, Steelworkers' Boss Philip Murray had just finished an oration denouncing the steel companies when a phone call from his Washington headquarters told him of the district court's action. Out went his order: Strike at once. Before midnight, the walkout from the mills was under way, and the flow of steel came to a stop...
...Aldous Huxley. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser and Eugene O'Neill. They also became trademarks of the "lost generation" along with hot jazz, bobbed hair and the hip flask. Mencken lashed out at the "booboisie" with a bull whip; the debonair Nathan was content to use a swizzle stick. In the eyes of the proper-minded, the two iconoclasts were unholy terrors. A couplet of those days went...
...been Church vs. State in the Constitutional ball game and the stands have been packed. After surveying the field with a stick in its hand for a number of years, the umpire, the Supreme Court, has finally staked out the foul lines. Out in foul territory are the school-children of Champaign, Illinois. They can't get religion during school hours, when clerics invade the public schools to give it. This was the Court's decision in the Vasht--McCollom case in 1948. But safely inside the foul line, since last week, are the kids from New York...
...heroine, Diane Lattimer, 18, has just broken out of a reformatory. She prides herself on being a hip* chick who can deep-breathe on a stick of Tea (marijuana) or leave it alone. For junkies (addicts) who get hooked on Horse (heroin), she has the smug contempt a moderate drinker might feel for an alcoholic. Emotionally, Diane is a D.P. Home, for her, is not her Bible-thumping mother's flat, but a kind of Greenwich Village inferno. The neurotics who crawl across her life and the pages of Novelist Mandel's book have addresses on Bleecker...
...January 1950, he escaped to Persia once more, and this time made it stick. El Campesino lives in France now, but the French Communists do not cheer him as they used to. The word has got around: he is no longer a hero...