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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual performances, Hope's is far and away the standout. He blows bubbles through a cornet. He even gets the mouthpiece stuck on his lips, which is certainly a new one from his bag of tricks. And when he pulls off a crack about Congressmen with all the finesse of a dinosaur laying an egg, he is really tops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...Grand Central and Pennsylvania Stations, crowds stormed train gates, until extra police details herded them into order. The thousands who panted through the scrimmage into commuter cars soon regretted their triumph. Trains got stuck as soon as they left the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Big Snow | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Each hair, say Emmelin & Feldberg, has a flexible bladder at its base. The hair itself is hollow and stiffened with silica. At the tip is a tiny bulb like a cork stuck on the end of a hypodermic needle. When the hair touches a victim, the bulb breaks off, exposing a point so exquisitely sharp that it slips right through the skin. Pressure on the hair shaft squeezes the bladder and injects poison into the victim's tissues. The result: a hot, burning sensation followed by a longer-lasting itching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Unsociable Nettle | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

John Foster Dulles was lucky: he could get away, at least for a few days, from the room in Lancaster House where the air was thick with boredom, and stale mental sweat. While his boss, Secretary of State George Marshall, stuck it out in London, Dulles went to Paris to take a look at France's battle against the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). In London, the Foreign Ministers were still hammer-locked in a weary, heavy-breathing propaganda match. Day after day, Vyacheslav Molotov untiringly obstructed any specific action on the peace treaties for Germany and Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Sickening Circles | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Rainmaker | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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