Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Togliatti summoned Giolitti to Rome for disciplining. But. his starry eyes opened at last. Antonio Giolitti stuck to his grandfather's mansion and chose liberty. Unable to change the party, he left...
Arnold Moss has taken on the seemingly impossible task of condensing the whole work into one two-and-a-half-hour evening, with surprisingly successful results. None of the original five parts is wholly dispensed with; and the eight acts have been compressed into six scenes. Moss has rightly stuck to the main theme of the work. He has pared away the lengthy digressions and the superfluous characters (such as the comic takeoffs on the British statesmen Asquith and Lloyd George...
...Britain's pace-setting Mike Blagrove led the field into the first lap on the dead sprint. In third place was Ibbotson, his chest stuck out like a bantam cock's, his legs and arms weaving perfect circles, running like a mechanical toy. The time for the first quarter-mile: 0:55.3, just 9.5 sec. slower than the world record. "When I heard that time," said Ibbotson later, "I felt sick." At the half-mile mark. the time was a phenomenal 1:55.8. Then Blagrove faded. When the bell clanged at the start of the final quarter-mile...
...would allow airline operators, like homeowners, to reinvest proceeds from the sale of old planes in new equipment without paying a capital-gains tax. Without such help, warned the Air Transport Association's President Stuart G. Tipton, one of the most promising of all U.S. industries will stay "stuck on dead center." Shoppers & Salesmen. The irony is that few industries can match the feeder lines' growth. Flying every kind of short-haul traveler from weekend shoppers to city-hopping salesmen, the lines carried 3,453,000 passengers last year (up from...
...worked and warred for several generations, Roberts had already gained international repute as a good reporter (on the Boston Post, 1909-17, the Saturday Evening Post, 1919-37) when he switched to full-time writing of historical fiction, ingeniously and accurately ("I think that most historians . . . should have stuck to farming") tracked down his background for realistic, robust tales of the French and Indian wars (1754-60) and the Revolutionary...