Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balding, genial Frank Walker, chair man of the Democratic National Commit tee, last week returned to Washington from a month's political tour of the U.S., stuck his tongue in his well-rounded pink cheek...
...Chicago's Loop, in "Dead End Kids" movie style, hands up, faces scowling, three hoodlums-"Crabs" Kravish, 17, "Amateur" Schenold, 19, and "Ray" Weglowski, 17-surrendered to the coppers. That day, with two companions who made a getaway, they had stolen three cars, stuck up a priest, kidnapped and released a 17-year-old Chicago heiress, Helen Priebe, and her 18-year-old escorts...
...hour before the plane was due in Chicago, the pilot found the landing gear stuck, informed his shipload of brass hats of the choice before them: parachute or a crash landing. While the passengers worried away an hour preparing for the next-to-worst, the mechanic got the gear unstuck. Among the relieved passengers: WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson...
...metal and rubber, less wood and paper, they cannot keep up peacetime production. But the Toy Fair showed that U.S. playthings will certainly not be as dreary as the toys British moppets had to take last Christmas, when a toy tank, crudely modeled of wood, with beer-bottle caps, stuck on for gun turrets, sold for a pound...
British artillery was in position before Médinine. Some of their gun emplacements were on two hillocks, dubbed Elephant Hill and Edinburgh Castle, which stuck up like two pimples in the plain. Others were on the ridges behind, where TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden also stood and watched one phase of one day's battle. Belden wrote in his notebook...