Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Card Sharp. In San Bernardino, Calif., a card stuck in the windshield of an illegally parked car bore an exchange of messages: "Dear Officer, I ran out of gas and money, too," followed by "Dear Citizen, I'll give you an hour to earn some money and buy some...
Lieut. David Steeves, U.S.A.F.R., 23, still sticking to (or stuck with) his story of a fast bail-out and slow 54-day ordeal in the Sierra Nevada wilds (TIME, July 15, Aug. 26), was relieved from active duty at his own request, began scrounging for "some kind of flying job." Dave Steeves also has domestic troubles; his pretty wife Rita has left him, sees no hope of reunion because there is "no love" between them. But the crash of his marriage, disclosed Pilot Steeves in this month's Redbook magazine, had nothing to do with the crash...
...years classical sales have hovered around 20% of total record sales. A great many of the bestselling disks in the classical category (Christmas Hymns and Carols, Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea) are classics only in the vocabulary of record companies. Many record executives still wince as if stuck by a stylus when asked to release out-of-the-way music rather than the profitable old favorites...
...articulate enemies. They criticized him for his key role in the congressional investigation of Communist Alger Hiss, for the "Nixon Fund" in California, and for the "Checkers Speech" that he made defending himself. They continued to criticize him for the way he campaigned against Democrats in 1954. But Nixon stuck to his job, began to win respect for his diligence, his conduct during the first two presidential illnesses and on trips abroad as President Eisenhower's representative...
...Packard had stuck to his expressed purpose, there would not have been overly much to complain about in his book. But he did not write only an informative exploration, he made his book a sermon. He appears to be appalled obviously by these discoveries and techniques of the advertising age and seeks to instill this horror in his readers...