Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall. Without Communist support the Popular Front could not have existed. With Communist support it could not endure, since patriotic Leftists of other parties are convinced that the Communists take orders from Moscow. The second bill Don Tinto vetoed was one outlawing the Communist Party This time the veto stuck, but Don Tinto's own Radical Party ordered six of its members to resign from the Cabinet in protest. This they did, but the President persuaded them to reconsider. Thereupon they were kicked out of the Party...
Another time there was the problem of the exact noise of a man being skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...
...Materiel. Those guns stuck out like sore thumbs-for the maneuvers had brought out not only the Army's spectacular new function as an instrument of defense, but also Mexico's spectacular weaknesses. Mexico has only 42,000 first-line combat troops. There are some 60,000 additional Agraristas, country volunteers, armed with rifles by the Government. Yearly conscript classes may soon be added to the regular reserve...
...Club, where she has worked for 40 years, when two frozen-faced young men came softly in behind her and demanded her keys. They wanted to get in Room No. 1903, across the hall, they whispered. When Mrs. O'Brien asked why, one of the soft-snarling men stuck a revolver against her apron. Mrs. O'Brien put her hand in her apron pocket where she kept her key ring -and a crucifix. She clutched the crucifix and uttered a silent, urgent prayer. Then she swung her fist to the gunman...
...Southern Medical Journal Dr. Howard Bruce Shorbe of Oklahoma City warned automobile drivers to keep their elbows off the window ledge. Dr. Shorbe has treated 32 elbows that stuck out too far, were sideswiped by other cars, by trucks, a horse, a mule-and most were crippled for life...