Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hellinger move up from script writing to producing, swore that he could do anything Hellinger could do and do it better. At first he so loathed California that his wife bet him a dozen of his famed cacophonous Charvet ties that he wouldn't last four weeks. He stuck it out five months at RKO, signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox, and has since become, in most respects, an acclimated if eccentric Hollywoodsman...
...open speaker's platform surrounded by newsmen and telegraphers. But as Knox stood up to speak, lightning flashed, thunder rattled and rain fell in streams. The public-address system went dead; telegraph lines were washed out, everybody around the platform broke for cover. All but Knox: he stuck it out in the deluge as long as he could stand it, soaked to the skin, reading doggedly through his manuscript, grinning, gesturing. Few could hear him-but he won a lot of friends that...
Crime. In Stockton, Calif., police followed a string leading from a burglarized fruit store to a rooming house, arrested William Briscoe, to whose shoe the string had stuck. In St. Paul, officers of the Moose Lodge learned their safe had been stolen when police returned it. In Cleveland, Richard Pearse slept undisturbed in his car while thieves took three wheels and a spare, removed his wrist watch from his arm, one wallet from the inside of his coat, another from his hip pocket. In Denver, burglars left a note in Edward V. Dunklee's house: "Sir: Your beer...
Less emotionally, Nehru has claimed for years that the British Indian Government is effective only with repressive measures. He has stuck barbs of sarcasm into the classic Tory theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...
...cumulonimbus cloud should be regarded as a red traffic light of the air lanes, because it means rough air thunder storms, sometimes hail. But even after they memorized cloud forms until they could recite them in their sleep, they could not learn a proper respect for weather until they stuck their noses into trouble. That took time...