Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advocates of U.M.T. stuck to their guns...
...steam-driven towboat Kokoda, running nearly 160 miles ahead of the diesel-driven Helena in a 1,100-mile race up the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis, got stuck in the ice ten miles above Cairo, Ill., barely managed to get up enough headway to keep its lead...
...origin of the feud is obscure. Earnestly endeavoring to track it down, one editor found: "Back in the 80's, some indifferent Yardsters referred idly to the growing institution on Garden Street as the Harvard Annex. That name stuck for years, faintly indicative of the vague scorn with which undergraduates looked on their feminine associates. In the intervening years, poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women...
...black sedan was stalled in traffic a few minutes before students blocked the streets with a great sign-waving demonstration. They pasted on the front fender a sign: "Down with British Imperialism." I stuck my head out and said: "I'm not British." A bespectacled student in a long blue gown said pleasantly: "I'm sorry." Then he and his friends pasted another sign on the rear door. It said: "Down with British Imperialism and the U.S.A...
...load of hay, another with a batch of butter. One Manchester builder always carries drainpipes in the back of his car and wears overalls over his natty $75 suit. Officially, he is always on his way to or from "drain trouble." An enterprising publican near Birmingham bought a hayrick, stuck it in a nearby field, and advertised it "for sale." Farmers could drive to the field to inspect the hayrick and, incidentally, drop into the pub for a pint...