Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humphrey, instead of fully arguing the merits of the extension, was forced to defend himself against charges of lobbying for the bill. He admitted that he and Under Secretary Marion Folsom had spoken to officials of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (both have stuck to their stand against EPT extension). Nearly all the witnesses summoned by the committee turned out to be against the extender; the respected Committee for Economic Development, pro-EPT extension, had its invitation canceled...
...running around Boston than in student activities. "Then, too," Pusey recalls, "I didn't take much part in College life because I was pretty hardbitten with Harvard indifference." He lived in Gore Hall, then a freshman dormitory, and gathered a group of five good friends, all of whom stuck together throughout college. He gave up his one venture into athletics, freshman basketball, to devote all his time to study. His singleness of purpose gained for Pusey membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and a magna degree in English literature...
...running around Boston than in student activities. "Then, too," Pusey recalls, "I didn't take much part in College life because I was pretty hard bitten with Harvard indifference." He lived in Gore Hall, then a freshman dormitory, and gathered a group of five good friends, all of whom stuck together throughout college. He gave up his one venture into athletics, freshman basketball, to devote all his time to study. His singleness of purpose gained for Pusey membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and a magna degree in English literature...
...Plinton found, when he tried to get his pants cleaned, that Haiti had no dry-cleaning plant. He also found that this fact has all sorts of consequences. Haitian businessmen suffered from it, because they could not find much of a market for woolens, gabardines or satins. Most Haitians stuck to washable linens, since only a few of the rich could afford to send clothes to be dry-cleaned in the States, or to throw them away after they got dirty. Haiti's legion of nimble seamstresses were affected, because they could exercise their skill only on the familiar...
...bigger business than ever. But the ones that cost only a million dollar or so were hardly paying their way. The "habit public" had deserted to television. Last year most of the major studios barely managed to show a profit, and their position was dangerous because they were stuck with tremendous plants which they no longer needed to make the few pictures that brought in the big green...