Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of TIME'S editors manage to take a yearly junket or two in the U.S. or overseas to whet their working knowledge of the countries and things they write about-but not the Managing Editor. He's stuck. Among a host of other duties, he has to edit every piece of copy that goes into TIME each week (he has, he says, a basilisk's eye complicated by journalist's cataract). So it was good news to me that T. S. Matthews had gotten away for a week's trip by chartered plane...
...worked hard to prove he was no snob. By campaign's end he had made some 450 speeches before luncheon clubs, Catholic societies, the Camelia Lodge of Sons of Italy. He ate spaghetti with Italians, drank tea with Chinese, sipped sirupy coffee with Syrians. He stuck to local topics: restoration of Boston's port, encouragement of New England industries, aid for veterans...
...horrified Britons watched freshly severed heads-garnished with all manner of delicacies, sometimes with a lighted cigar stuck between their teeth, swing gently through the air at native ceremonies. The Company, deciding that British stockholders could not be expected to underwrite that sort of thing, nearly managed to stamp out the custom...
...from a hiding place with two detectives. Hibbs and Harley had been schoolmates and friends for 35 years, but Hibbs would not condone railroading's worst crime - deliberate wrecking. The detectives were kind. "Why don't you say you had a brainstorm?" one of them suggested. Harley stuck with twisted dignity to the standards of the job that had warped his frustrated life. Said he: "I couldn't do my job of engine-driving if I had brainstorms...
...department. A reluctant journalist, who still has a tendency to be ponderous and pontifical, he spent much of the next ten years longing to get back to his books (Dante, medieval history). Even when he became second man in the Times's Paris bureau, he writes ruefully, he stuck to his ivory tower, picked up no political knowledge that he could avoid, shut his eyes to the drama of his own century...