Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly we need a leader of Teddy Roosevelt's plain, old-fashioned guts today. Instead, we are stuck with pussyfooting little politicians, afraid of the voters' shadows. Would T.R. ever have sanctioned the ruinous farm surplus system, the Korean disaster, the betrayal of Hungary, the Aswan Dam blunder...
...already swallowed that bayonet five times that day," he recalled later. "You're only supposed to do it a few times a week." At any rate, when he tried to swallow that bayonet, almost a foot of it slipped down all right and then it stuck. The crowd began to titter and Andy panicked. Instead of pulling the bayonet out and starting again, he tried to force it. Though it hurt a bit, he got through...
...more psychiatrists learn about mental illnesses, the less willing they become to hang neat diagnostic labels on them. This is especially true of children's mental illnesses, which are so baffling that they defy classification by the most determined nosologist. Yet the term "childhood schizophrenia" has stuck. There has been an enormous increase in this diagnosis, now "fashionable and much abused," says Dr. Hilde L. Mosse in the American Journal of Psychiatry, and it has done great harm to a lot of children...
Takata. For last week's program on "What Does Orchestration Mean?" Bernstein arrived at Carnegie Hall at 5:45 a.m. with his finished script to rehearse until the performance started at noon. During the concert, bouncy, boyish-looking Lecturer Bernstein roamed the stage with a microphone stuck in his jacket, sometimes sat down at the piano to dash off a musical example. Only occasionally did he indulge in cuteness, as when he spoke of "Grandfather Bassoon" and "Little Sister Piccolo," or explained that orchestration is like "putting clothes on notes...
Picket. In Ardmore, Okla., State Trooper Paul Clark was waved down by a man at the side of the road who got himself arrested when he stuck his head in the window, warned: "Hey, the highway cops are working a radar trap over the hill...