Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the fields outside. In many a village women got ready for the first family wash since the village brook dried up last fall. Men stuck out their tongues to taste the rain,'or stood watching it soak into the parched earth...
...changed" souls that gathered around Buchman first called themselves the "First Century Christian Fellowship." But the name that stuck (to outrage many a Briton*) was the "Oxford Group...
...Kubie stuck a scalpel into the heart of Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's whole project: the interviews. Kinsey and his coworkers, he said, give human memory a precision it does not have; "they recognize that we can 'forget,' but not that we can 'misremember.'" For instance, he said, the book seriously discusses sexual experiences recollected from early childhood without taking into account all the forces, like dreams, that can distort children's memories...
...speech last week to the American Psychopathological Association, in Manhattan, Dr. Kinsey stuck to his guns-arguing, even more emphatically than he has before, that man's sex habits aren't very different from those of other mammals. Most of man's sexual behavior that is now considered abnormal, he said, is "part & parcel of our inheritance as mammals and is natural and normal biologically." It is, he said, scientifically sound to look to mammalian background "as sources of human behavior." He was seconded by Yale Psychologist Frank Beach, who has studied sex habits from shrews* (mouselike...
Once it was just an island between two rivers, with a bedrock which defied digging. But it had a magnificent, deep-water harbor and a river which led to the hinterland. Slowly its farms turned into city blocks, its mud streets grew cobblestones, its docks stuck fingers into the sea. First its sewers, then its wires, and finally its trains went underground. The higher its buildings rose, the deeper went their foundations. Its bowels became a vast catacomb laced with the ganglia of communication. It was an aggressive organism; it touched everything within reach, attached to itself everything it touched...