Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stuck. He had produced one thinly disguised story about his roommate's sex life, two reminiscences of childhood in Dobbs Ferry, and the coffee cups poem. He hated the idea of writing a "potboiler," but he was three thousand words behind. Three times that weeks he had started another reminiscence of his Dobbs Ferry childhood, only to give up in disgust...
Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington stuck closely to one surefire issue-the steel strike. (The U.A.W. has given $1,000,000 to help the steel strikers.) Said Symington: "There was no national emergency with hundreds of thousands of people out of work, eating out of their savings, worrying about their future. The national emergency came after the great corporations had liquidated their inventories." Symington was greeted with warm applause...
...labor and management met over a coffee table in Pittsburgh's Penn-Sheraton Hotel. The session followed the same pattern of dull do-nothing that had characterized all the previous negotiations. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough pointed to the management's offer of a "15? wage package," stuck by his demands for revision in union work rules (TIME, Oct. 12). United Steelworkers Union President David McDonald, who had walked out of a previous session, declared that the package really contained only 10.2,? refused even to discuss changes in the work rules, tagged the whole business "putrid...
...longtime (1948-57) boss of the Strategic Air Command, now Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, proceeded into blunt analysis of the role of reserve and National Guard outfits in modern defense establishment. By last week, with the angry replies coming in. Curt LeMay may have wished he had stuck to platitudes...
...jump their Commons majority from 53 to 100 seats. Liberals, on the strength of their 1,600,000 popular vote, forecast with eager optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting Labor's leaders with the hard fact that Britain's citizens want no more socialism...