Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, to take final action on the President's long-stalled nomination of Solicitor General Simon E. Sobeloff to the Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals. The nomination, first submitted last July, had been stuck in the Judiciary Committee by determined Southern opposition to Sobeloff because of his "unsympathetic" racial views (before the Supreme Court he argued the Government's 1955 case on implementing the school desegregation decision). The breakthrough, after a month-long filibuster by South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston, came in an 8-2 committee vote to report the nomination...
...Russians, back in their refurbished Muscovite pavilion for the first time since 1932, drew the biggest crowds. But the official, Stalin-period art (stocky peasant girls laughingly sheafing wheat) soon drove them away. The U.S. exhibit (TIME, June 18), which collected no prizes, was a hit, mainly because it stuck to one theme: "The City.'' Best that could be said: the Biennale was immense...
Coup de Grâce. In Poitiers, France, stuck with a 32-room chateau he could not sell because of high repair costs and real-estate taxes, Louis Vuilleumier despairingly bought 130 sticks of dynamite, blew...
...making the film, Disney not only stuck fairly close to the facts but was even courageous enough to dispense with a love story. About the only women in sight are relegated to such menial jobs as waiting on table. Sturdy Fess (Davy Crockett) Parker trades in his coonskin cap for a felt hat as the federal spy; Jeffrey Hunter is the picture of keen-eyed implacability as the pursuing conductor; and a large group of native Georgians adequately re-create their Civil War ancestors. Since the raid involved a minimum of hand-to-hand fighting, Disney partially supplied the lack...
...hickest of all hick towns." Of U.S. Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson. "You know what I think of Hoover. Turn him upside down, and he looks the same." As for the Roosevelts, Teddy "had the manners of a saloon bouncer and the soul of a stuck pig, and FDR is the synthesis of all the liars, scoundrels, and cheapskates of mankind...