Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marines upheld the honor of the Corps. Easygoing, hands.ome Major Loften R. Henderson stuck to his flaming bomber, crashed on a carrier deck. Captain Richard E. Fleming, hit by anti-aircraft fire, went on to drop his bombs, flew to his death...
...late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer's three great cartoonists have all stuck to their earnest convictions. One of them, poker-playing Daniel Fitzpatrick, lean, well-paid and determinedly independent, is still a mainstay of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and one of the foremost men in his profession. Another, Robert Minor, has long since laid down his charcoal to follow his beliefs into another profession (he is a member of the political committee of the Communist Party in the U.S.). The third, Rollin Kirby, once the best-known of the three, last week quit...
...hour and 27 minutes Winston Churchill answered his critics in tones both of challenge and of humility. He made a long appeal for sympathy because he had been criticized while he was overseas talking to Franklin Roosevelt. He also made the salutary admission that "I have stuck hard to my 'blood, toil, tears and sweat'-to which I have added muddles and mismanagements...
...weather was typical Army-Navy football game weather, without snow - it was the filthiest day with the coldest and slickest mud Americans had ever seen on July 4th. But the Australians stuck it out despite the fact that many of the 6,000, who paid a total of ?500, had to stand in an icy wind. At the game's end, the Australians applauded politely...
...shaking started a year ago when the Brotherhoods demanded their nationwide 30% wage boost. G. P. McN., like the other roads, agreed to part of the raise. But unlike the others, he added a proviso and stuck to it-no more featherbedding. Roared he: "A day's work for a day's pay." So last December his engineers and trainmen struck. So G. P. McN. went on running his railroad as usual, except that he used only 55 trainmen instead of 83-the number which the Brotherhoods' featherbed rules would have required for the same work...