Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernadotte's great-grandson, Gustaf, has worn galoshes throughout his reign, and has been bothered by neither colds nor revolutions. As added health measures, he has taken annual junkets to the Riviera, stuck to tennis, Nobel Prize speeches, and other strictly constitutional exercises. One of his most independent and controversial achievements was the discovery in a Paris cafe, in 1934, of Hildegarde, the "French" chanteuse from Milwaukee. He has been close to his subjects, even liked to answer his own telephone. (Since his number was similar to a popular theater's, Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King...
...Sudan, whose sandy hair is thinning now, tells about the February day he drove through the snow until even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...
Subsequently the Senate hit upon a cut of $4,500,000,000. The House stuck by the original figure. A conference committee was appointed to adjust the difference; and that was the last ever to be heard from the legislative budget. One of the most valuable portions of the Legislative Reorganization Act had been emasculated by trying to use in as a political tool with which to discredit the President. Republican leaders had formulated the size of the cut before they even saw the budget...
...snow-clogged Brooklyn, boys built snow booby traps across freshly plowed streets, patiently waited for drivers to get stuck. Then they shoveled the cars...
...Reporter Breslin stood at the side of U.S. 112 near Willow Run, and stuck out his thumb. He had a $50 bill, a sign that said "Rose Bowl or Bust," a box of his mother's chicken sandwiches, and letters to wirephoto bureaus along the way. At 6:30 p.m., chilled to the bone (and with $47.86 left) he got to Coldwater, Mich., 114 miles from home...