Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev line is the one he is stuck with: more consumer goods, less coercion of the peasants, a pledge of tolerance for different varieties of Communism in the satellites. He might intend to deliver on none of these promises, but all of them are an implied recognition of what his Communist subjects want (even if they have no vote), and he might yet be compelled by circumstances to deliver more than he intends...
Impressed, House members, sitting as the committee of the whole, struck out the section. Soon after the House reconvened (as the House), the Democrats who proposed the provision in the first place rallied votes, stuck it back in again by a 230-to-183, party-line vote. Unless the Senate amends or the President vetoes, the Defense Department will keep on making paint, roasting coffee and laundering skivvies in addition to more important duties until Congress grants permission to quit...
...great party institutions in Moscow were stuck with their new leader; so was the world...
...Later recreated as a ministry, the MVD, though the old name stuck. * Security Boss Ignatiev, who may know a great deal about Stalin's death two months later, is still alive, a full member of the Central Committee and the only living ex-NKVD boss. * Khrushchev's answer, delivered last week in Czechoslovakia: "On a hungry stomach, Marxist-Leninism may be very difficult to un derstand. It is not wrong to throw in a piece of bacon and a piece of butter in the course of improving the theory of Marx...
...German-language version. The supporting casts in both albums are excellent: Sopranos Suzanne Danco and Pierette Alarie (Epic), Maria Stader and Rita Streich (Decca). Despite the good singing, the recordings suffer from the opera's basic structural fault. Groundbreaker though he was in his own day, Composer Gluck stuck too closely to wearisome, undramatic alternation of choral passages and recitatives, thus kept his often lovely work from stirring into full-bodied life...