Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd spotted the girl: Dorothy Geraldine Counts, 15, daughter of a theology professor at Charlotte's Johnson C. Smith University, was walking down the street with a friend of her father's. The crowd, screaming, swarmed around her. It taunted her, pointed at her hair, stuck fingers up behind her head to resemble horns, held its nose as if against a bad smell. "Spit on her," screeched Mrs. Warlick. Some did. Dorothy, a tall and pretty girl, walked head high toward the school...
...fabled European banking dynasty; after long illness; in Geneva. Momo was only an incidental banker, whose real interests were art collecting, fast horses and gaudy pajamas. A splashy spender, he was elected (1924) Deputy to the French National Assembly, had his seat booted when a bribery charge stuck, softened the bump by winning a senatorial race...
...after a ten-year run, and all earlier sounds became mere whimpers. A New Jersey woman wrote Sponsor Gordon Baking Co.: "We do not intend to buy any more of your product." A Chicago fan complained: "I bought my TV set on your account, and now I'm stuck with the damn thing." More than one mother complained that she would miss cleaning the smudges her children made on the TV screen when they kissed the Kuklapolitans good night. To the chief programmer of NBC (and former ABC president) came a letter from Adlai Stevenson: "Surely such assassination, murther...
...week began with this tactical situation: the civil rights bill, with the Senate amendment requiring jury trials in all criminal contempt cases, was stuck fast in the House Rules Committee and needed G.O.P. votes to bring it out. But Joe Martin, who is not even certain that he has any Negroes in his district ("I've seen one or two of them on the streets in Attleboro, but I can't say I can recall the names of any of them"), was determined to place a Republican stamp on what then stood as a Democratic bill. Said Martin...
...girl air of gravity. A passionately liberal Democrat, she is known as one of the shrewdest, scrappiest literary agents (annual income: about $30,000) in Manhattan, handling a stable of topflight authors, including rock-solid Republican James Gould Cozzens. Their childless marriage has been a remarkable success. While he stuck to his writing and made little money from it, she was the real breadwinner. Says Cozzens: "It could have been a humiliating situation, but I guess I had a certain native conceit and felt that her time was well spent...