Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles to read his poetry on Milton Berle's television show, durable, leathery Carl Sandburg, 80, stuck to whisky sours at a Hollywood cocktail party in his honor. Back in his prairie years, he told adulating filmlanders, he "reviewed a thousand films in seven years for the Chicago Daily News." Someone asked what he thought of the Beat Generation writers. Said Sandburg: "I don't concern myself with ephemera...
...have any color car you want," Henry Ford used to say, "so long as it's black." The father of modern mass production not only stuck to a few colors, but turned out more than 15 million model Ts over 19 years with hardly a change. Since then the U.S. has changed, and with it the idea of mass production. Today manufacturers not only change their models frequently, but turn out everything from electric irons to autos in a bewildering variety of models and colors. Many manufacturers are now beginning to wonder whether they are doing the consumer...
Following close debate, the name of General Winfield Scott, hero of the Mexican War and top-ranked Union officer in the 1860s, was returned to the membership rolls of the University of South Carolina's Clariosophic Society. The college debaters purged Scott when he stuck by the Union at the outset of the Civil War. A century later, some Clariosophomores still think Virginia's Scott was "a man with the blood of our predecessors dripping from his hands"; but the ayes had seen his glory coming...
...Hero. Maverick lay stunned for five minutes, but as the hunters approached, he struggled to his feet. Blindly, he staggered to a metal-plated gate, clawed at it, stuck his nose into a crack, scrambled, scratched, pushed. Then, in utter, bewildered defeat, he slumped to the ground, and was carted...
...series lead. Switch-Hitter Red Schoendienst lined a drive toward left. Elston Howard took off with the crack of the bat, ran straight into the murderous glare that makes left field at Yankee Stadium the toughest sun field in the major leagues. Diving to his knees, Howard sprawled forward, stuck out his gloved hand, and came up with the ball that had looked like a sure base hit. Howard scrambled to his feet, gunned a strike to first base to double a surprised Bill Bruton, who had confidently rounded second before he recognized his mistake...