Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Air Corps started training R.A.F. men last June, 2,361 Britishers enrolled. Of that number 1,759 have stuck it out, but future washouts (average: 40-50% of a class) will probably reduce the ranks to around 1,400 qualified airmen. The British-supervised schools, which lose only 20% of the students, now include over 350 pupils, will be expanded to accommodate...
Grandfather Antonio danced only with his daughters or with some other member of the family, and the tradition stuck. When Sister Elisa died in 1928, Eduardo had to wait for Rita, who was ten, to grow up. The year before, certain that vaudeville was finished, he had moved his family from New York City, where Rita was born and schooled, to Hollywood. To earn a living he started a dancing school. Meanwhile, he settled on his daughter's future-motion pictures. Says he: "There was more money in it. and it provided the only logical future for Rita...
Several days after, while still very sick, the young doctor felt an "agonizing pain" in his legs; they turned cold and blue. The clot had been dislodged from his heart, had traveled along the aorta (main heart artery) till it became stuck at the point where the artery branched in two, low in his back, just above his legs. Calling his nurse, the doctor told her he was doomed, reminded her of a patient who had the same kind of embolism, lost his legs and died...
...people of Czecho-Slovakia stuck to sabotage. Arriving in Manhattan, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia explained why most of Europe's governments-in-exile encourage sabotage rather than bloody revolution. Said he: "The Nazis have already killed 2,000 of our people. My message to the Czechs, when I speak every week by short wave from London, is telling them to slow down production in the factories. Take the Skoda works with, say, 40,000 workers. If every one of those men" dawdles and takes an extra two minutes when he goes to the rest room...
Vance Breese, famed, ruddy test pilot, took it for its first ride. Off the ground he held the ship down, stuck close to earth to make the crash easy on himself if it came. It didn't. Grinned Jack Northrop, after he had landed: "It looks like we have a plane with a 20-foot ceiling...