Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arnold worked prodigiously at his desk, flew prodigiously, never lost his grin. Articulate, facile with words, he wrote boys' books about a young flying hero; with rugged Major General Ira Eaker as collaborator, he began turning out books about air power. But the lessons of other days had stuck. Arnold and Eaker tore no hair, snatched no lapels from their readers' coats. Their books were sound, but conservative and well hedged. If Billy Mitchell turns out not to be 100% right, neither of them has anything in print to regret...
...first ascent to his glassy Eagle's Nest above Berchtesgaden, Hitler got stuck in the elevator for four hours...
...kept her word, stuck to her reform. At month's end she had broken two of her own records. She traveled in May only 5,525 miles, an average of only 185 miles a day. And, for the first time in Washington's memory, she spent more days (18) in the city than...
Obviously, this kind of mentality is not what the Dawson Institute (How to Succeed in Spite of Yourself) is looking for. It is stuck with country boy Fonda, however, because its impoverished head (Don Ameche) has selected him as the nationwide winner of a contest for the man least likely to succeed. The prize is $500 cash and a course at the Institute. Fonda wants the cash only; Ameche has to make his unwilling pupil a success...
...where there will doubtless be games and all sorts of goodies and tuck. What these games will be or what work the devil will find to occupy their busy little minds is justly no concern of either the authors or their numerous readers. The children, poor little dears, are stuck for the duration in the Union...