Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Portuguese authorities in Macao denied that any such flight had ever occurred and other officials expressed extreme skepticism, both Bush and Sullivan stuck to their stories. Their watches were all they had as proof. Naturally, they said, they could not produce the father, the boy or the beautiful girl...
Anti-Hollywood. Although an enterprising publicity agent has stuck him with the label the Calypso King, Holder would like to forget commercial calypso as soon as his show closes next month after playing Philadelphia and Washington. Sitting last week in his dressing room, cluttered with the paintings he works on between shows, he tapped his shaven skull with nervous, spatulate fingers and speculated about what he would do next. In the fall he will present a concert show on Broadway starring himself and his wife and including no calypso at all. "Dancing," he says in his soft West Indian voice...
...body be disinterred and hanged. The cadaver dangled on a gibbet all day long on the twelfth anniversary of Charles I's execution, then was cut down and decapitated; the body was buried under the gallows at Tyburn (near London's present Marble Arch), the head stuck on a pike and displayed atop Westminster Hall. When a high wind blew it down after long exposure, a soldier carried it home...
Attorney General Brownell's annual report reemphasized the importance of President Eisenhower's civil rights bill, at present stuck in the Mississippi mud of Senator Eastman's Judiciary Committee. Brownell mentioned many letters demanding action by the Justice Department in "shocking" cases where Negroes had been denied legal equality. These letters are, in effect, a public mandate for some form of the administration bill, which extends Justice Department jurisdiction to active prosecution of civil rights abuses...
...committee, however, should look for two dangers inherent in such independence as the commissions enjoy. The natural tendency of any agency is to increase its power beyond that intended by the statutes creating it, especially when those statutes are vague. The investigation should determine how well the commissions have stuck to their original functions and should lead to a more exact definition of their position in the enforcement of legislation...