Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last time the London Philharmonic played there. To the first session Gross invited a handful of notables to come and hear for themselves. Sir Adrian Boult, Pianist Myra Hess and Composer Benjamin Britten sent regrets, but Mrs. Anthony Eden came, and wrote a fan letter. Tenor Richard Tauber stuck it out for two hours, then said politely: "This is ... a complete change from the music to which I am accustomed...
...precarious days, UNRRA's future looked black. Republican leaders stuck by a recent report from their Food Study Committee, which recommended that 1) all future UNRRA appropriations be viewed with "jaundiced eyes," 2) all appropriations be subject to the free press provision. Then one farseeing Republican rose in an attempt to break...
Ethridge himself stuck to fact-finding. He called on Premier Kimon Georgieff and Foreign Minister Petko Stainoff, talked with party leaders and newsmen...
...family of Seaman Kovacs, had a more serious complaint. Imogene had said she fired in self-defense when Kovacs started to beat her. Kovacs' brother, who was sitting with him in a neighbor's house when Mrs. Stevens stormed in and told them to clear out, stuck to his story that she had fired without warning (TIME, July 9). Wasn't her guilt a question for a jury to decide? Was this the way to protect the peace and dignity of the state...
Lieut. General Barney M. Giles, made commander of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, stuck to his estimate of the proper amount of occupation for Japan. Said he: "I hope we will be in Japan for 100 years...