Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goat-bearded tall man who stuck his thumb in the goat-bearded short man's eye died this week in Beverly Hills. He was Lewis Maurice Fields, 74, known to two generations as the aggressive half of Weber & Fields, the greatest knockabout comedy team in theater history...
McConnell has no legal authority, can only present his suggestions to industry and hope that they stick. They have stuck. His office helped OPACS draw up a rubber-conservation agreement under which manufacturers will cut consumption from 817,000 to 600,000 tons a year by using more reclaimed rubber, eliminating white sidewall tires (which take 2 lb. more rubber), etc. He persuaded manufacturers to quit using tin in oil and paint cans, use less tin and more lead in tubes for shaving and cold creams. This helped cut U.S. tin consumption by 10,000 tons (about 10%) a year...
Knifey spent the night at an all-night movie house, in the morning rode to Jackson Park. There a couple in a car picked him up. Knifey pulled his gun, stuck it at the man's head. The man saw a policeman and ran his car up on the sidewalk, shouting for help. Knifey shot the policeman. "Like all good coppers, he tries to get me," said Knifey. "That's his tough luck...
What does a country doctor do when, on his rounds, he encounters a Nazi parachutist? In the British Lancet which reached the U.S. last week, an anonymous doctor told what he had done. He had just left a farmhouse after delivering a baby. As he stuck his forceps in his hip pocket, he saw an airplane "crashing to earth and the ... pilot . . . floating gracefully from the sky." The doctor dashed back to the farm, snatched up a pitchfork, went after the parachutist, whom he found in the garden, still tangled in his harness...
...first saw Richard Burton in Boulogne, three years later; before she knew his name, she knew he was the only man she would ever marry. Burton scarcely noticed her. But for ten years, against her mother's howling efforts to marry her off, she stuck to her guns. At length she got him (they eloped), and her 30 years of wangling, promotion, and happy servility began...