Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denying the workers' demand for a flat $440 raise, the city manager stuck to his original offer of a seven per cent increase, but conceded a minimum raise of $350 for all permanent employees. Also at yesterday's meeting, the Council again declined setting a date for the referendum on the 17 controversial School Committee appointments...
...truth, the College is stuck with seven Houses which it cannot affort to support. They are too luxurious to meet the demands of undergraduates. But the current method of reducing their cost-crowding leads to inferior education as well as discomfort. The new Houses will meet educational requirements by having private studies but eliminate the Common Rooms, private baths, fireplaces, and individual entries which we can no longer afford. But if this means that only the well to do will live in the old Houses, then the College and the President should reconsider their program. Gracious living is very nice...
...They worked him over, choked him with his necktie, kicked him, groined him, blackened his eye. Sally sallied into the men's room, got her ankles booted for her solicitude. Now they were together again for the trial of the two sailors, whose plea was not guilty. Sally stuck by her original contention: "We sure as hell didn't start...
...Quigg wondered whether his lordship would prefer to have the Gettysburg Address begin: "Eighty-seven years ago our fathers founded here a new nation." And what about the about, asked Quigg, in the Biblical phrase, "And the glory of the Lord shone round about them"? But Lord Conesford stuck to his guns. Last week, invited to appear on CBS-TV's The Last Word, he landed in the U.S. to continue the attack...
...would only benefit major producers with big wells hooked into pipelines; small producers would still have to truck their oil to market at the high cost of 35? per bbl. Furthermore, independents fear that if they hike production to ease a short-term crisis in Europe, they will be stuck with a big surplus once the crisis is past. The problem could be solved easily, say the independents, if the big companies would divert their heavy oil imports from Venezuela to Europe instead of using them to supply their East Coast refineries. So far, the major companies have refused. They...