Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coalition began to crack apart. From his ship Señor Quezon radioed threats that he would not lead the ticket unless the coalition stuck together...
...York City's Bronx Zoo, a rare Himalayan bear ate a peach. The pit stuck in his small intestine, killed him. A hippopotamus gulped a tube of toothpaste, grew violently ill. In the stomach of a cassowary dead of indigestion were found a golf ball, a metal doll, twelve pop bottle tops, a vanity case...
...Detroit in a trimotored Ford of Central Airlines, he got as far as Hancock, Md. when the left outboard motor exploded, tore loose from its moorings, crashed through the landing gear and plunged earthward. The other two motors sputtered, the plane vibrated heavily, all lights went out. Pilot Carmichael stuck a flashlight out the window, calmly took stock of the situation...
...reform Charter looked far from permanent. Forfeiting his retirement pay, Col. Sherrill took the job. During the next five years, Col. Sherrill's clean, efficient management of Cincinnati s affairs became an historical example of good city government. A handsome, tactful North Carolinian, he made his decisions carefully, stuck to them. And when he resigned in 1930 to become a vice president of Cincinnati's Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., he was the most famed city manager...
...Milwaukee, Wis., toothless L. M. Crouch stuffed wax in his gums; hardened the wax by holding cold water in his mouth; from this mold made a base of litharge, plaster of Paris and mercurochrome; stuck into it pieces of a porcelain dinner plate; filed the pieces smooth with emery paper and had a serviceable set of false teeth, with which to attend a Boy Scout dinner. Last week, he announced that the china teeth, in service since February, would be presented to a museum when he gets the set he has ordered from a dentist...