Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic presidential nomination, said the pundits at year's beginning, would be won on the playing fields of the 86th Congress. And what green fields they were. The Democrats had swamped the Republicans in the November elections (House 283-153; Senate 64-34); the Republicans were stuck with their refusal to spend their way out of the recession; their once-popular President was held to be an ailing lame duck. Four 1960-minded Democratic Senators -Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy-appeared on every score card...
...last season Rocky did not get on with Manager Bobby Bragan, who stuck slavishly to the book and used his right-handed power only against left-handed pitching. Rocky sought out Bragan and blurted: "If you let me play regular, I'll hit 35 home runs and knock in 100 runs." Bragan promptly tipped off the sportswriters, stuck Rocky in the line-up to let him put up or shut up. "The minute I said it I knew I made a mistake," says Rocky. "But with God's help I hit 41 homers and I drove...
...talks had been "frank and comprehensive"), face-saving ("The position of both sides on certain points became closer") communique of a spare 149 words. As their final assignment, the foreign ministers had the tricky job of getting out of .the boat without rocking it. At one point, they got stuck over the problem of whether the West and East Germans at Geneva should be described as "advisers who participated," as the West wanted, or "participants who advised," as Gromyko wanted. Typically, the ministers decided just to avoid any mention of the subject...
...sight of automated soldiering seemed to provoke an irrepressible urge in passers-by to make the sentries convict themselves of being still human. Girls took to throwing their arms around the guards while chums snapped pictures to be sent home. Some sentries suffered the indignity of having toffee apples stuck on their bayonets; others found as they started off on their 25 paces that their shoelaces had been tied together. This summer has been especially galling: tourists have poked, tickled, thrown banana peels or ice-cream cups underfoot, sung out derisive marching orders, brazenly grabbed at the guards and screamed...
...price for loving danger. There was Bill Stead, 34, a Nevada rancher with a cowpoke's windburned face, whose legs and arms bear unhealed burns as souvenirs of a wild ride last March when his Maverick blew up at 175 m.p.h. on Lake Mead. Stead had coolly stuck to the boat: "Burns hurt a little more, but I'd rather have them than broken bones, and I've had both...