Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stadium advertising TARZAN AND HIS MATE at the Des Moines Theatre. A hairy-legged Tarzan in his own right, Jack Torrance stands 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 275 lb. All necks craned as he picked up the 16-lb. brass ball, cocked his huge arm, stuck out his big jaw. All mouths gasped as the missile flew brightly into the air, thudded to earth far beyond the last distance marker. Distance: 55 ft. 4 in.-some 23 in. beyond the world record...
...Washington, D.C., Donald Leo Boyd, 2, spied the open end of a pipe sticking out of the ground, shoved his chubby leg into it. When the leg stuck, Donald cried. A crowd collected, sent for emergency, police and fire squads. The crowd grew to more than 1,000, jamming traffic as they milled and chattered. A policeman split open the pipe while Donald clung to his father, thoughtfully inspected his fellow Washingtonians, sucked his fingers...
...noticed two men coming across the street toward him, casting long shadows under the lights. Patrolman Pittenger saw that they carried machineguns. One of the men poked the barrel of his gun in Patrolman Pittenger's belly. When Pittenger tried to push it away, the other man stuck the stock of his gun into the policeman's back...
...student returned to his room after a visit next door, he found one entire pane shattered to bits, and on the bed at the opposite side of the room, the missile in question. It was an old revolver, having a large antique value, if good for no other purpose. Stuck between the hammer and the chamber was this note: "Death tonight at the fatal hour of twelve. Your friend, the Phantom...
There was a lot of grumbling, but little happened. CWA workers staged "strikes" and demonstrations. Sometimes unruly protesters got into mild scuffles with police. But Harry Hopkins stuck to his course, fired CWA workers even faster than he had promised. To prevent suffering and minimize protest, those fired were told to establish that they were in want and, having done so, were given "work relief," just enough hours each week to provide subsistence...