Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like everybody else, Harry Truman could hear the cheers and brass bands, but unlike everybody else, never once bothered to stick his head out the window...
Mico's brother, a bright one who goes to college and accepts all the bejabbers of modern science, grows up to be a dusty wielder of test tubes. His best friend, a ranting revolutionary, is knocked out of his wits by a hurling stick in a game of Irish hockey, and later kills himself. Big, slow Mico goes steady ahead, fishing the waters, eating the bread, waiting for the girl of his portion...
...draws heavily and unashamedly on arts of the distant past. Smith's sculptures can look like junk-shop equivalents of savage fetishes, bird cages twisted out of shape, elaborate cookie-cutters, armatures for conventional statues, and illegible cut-metal messages. His 24 Greek Ys look somewhat like stick-figures. They are reminiscent of the ages when letters were pictorial symbols and not just parts of words. Smith's 24 Ys perform a sprightly dance on the arms of a steel-candelabrum, spell out Smith's conviction that sculpture need mean nothing...
...Kefauver crime hunt was over -at least for the time being Senator Kefauver himself relaxed, showed his daughter how to ride a pogo-stick. The country still had crime on its mind, and if half the activity of last week was genuine, it was going to make life a little less comfortable for the gamblers, extortionists, hoods, crooked cops and corrupt politicians whose faces or names flitted into view of the Kefauver committee's TV cameras. It was, of course...
...that they operate just like scheduled airlines without the legal authorization and without the responsibilities. Most of the non-skeds got their start by buying surplus war transports, are still largely shoestring operations. Since they don't have to give the public service on unprofitable runs, they stick to runs where traffic is heaviest. CAB knows that its new regulation will make a big dent in the non-skeds' business, but it offered the non-skeds something else. It would permit them to fly on domestic routes on a contract basis for the Department of Defense. But such...