Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate chemist, got his training as a patron of the arts by running a garage and working at General Motors, where he bossed 40 men ironing out production bugs for G.M.'s subcontractors. But he longed for something more creative. Recalls Klein: "Gee whiz, it got terrible being stuck there at General Motors. I began to look around...
...Lenin made Molotov Second Secretary of the Communist Party Secretariat. The first secretary: his old ally Joseph Stalin. In the Trotsky-Stalin feud Molotov stuck by Joe, helped him transform the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the secretariat. One by one, the Old Bolshevik revolutionaries went down before Stalin's wrath: Trotsky the warlord, Zinoviev, chief of the Communist International, Bukharin, Lenin's "closest disciple" and longtime editor of Pravda, Kamenev, ambassador to London and Rome, Tomsky, head of trade unions, Rykov, head of government. Their power went to Stalin, their jobs to his faithful...
This exchange made the hearing's only headlines. Most of Van Fleet's testimony was a reprise of things he had said before. He stuck to his guns, insisting that shortages of ammunition-especially of mortar and 155-mm. howitzer shells- had made it impossible to "plan adequate defensive fire, harassing, interdiction and counterbattery, to keep the enemy from launching an attack." Asked whether he had enough ammunition to halt a Chinese offensive, Van Fleet replied: Yes, but only because "the Chinese cannot maintain an offensive for more than a few weeks. They do not know...
...Washington buzzed with the word that Benson's head would be first on the chopping block in the new Administration. Benson was new in politics; he was amazed at the attacks. But since then, with his mail running 16 to 1 in favor of his stand, he has stuck to his free-enterprising guns-at least in principle. The day-to-day struggle that centers around his office is exceeded in intensity only by the pressures on Secretary of State Dulles and Secretary of Defense Wilson...
...Marshall, Konno and Jack Medica as indoor triple-distance winners in a single A.A.U. meet. McLane figures that this is his farewell to swimming, and after ten years of competition he is not really unhappy about it: "In fact, it wouldn't break my heart if the Army stuck me in the Sahara Desert...