Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mattered little, for only disagreement was on the order of the day (see below). King George and Queen Elizabeth were giving an "evening party" at Buckingham Palace. The Russians arrived with their bodyguards, but left them in the courtyard. In the lofty Blue Drawing Room, Molotov and colleagues stuck together in a tight little knot and touched neither the champagne cup nor the whiskey and sherry. They did not even smoke. George Marshall stuck with U.S. Ambassador Douglas. Winston Churchill, looking as gloomy as his frock coat, left early. The King talked to Molotov a little longer than...
...Paris dress houses threw parties for their midinettes (Christian Dior gave his on the first platform of the Eiffel Tower). The spirit of the occasion was best summarized by one reveler who threw a Camembert, in just the right state of decomposition, up to the ceiling; there it stuck, slowly dripping cheese on the gaiety below...
Professor Brigance, who once taught at the University of Hawaii, urged the university to set up stiff English-language entrance exams, and make English-language courses compulsory. Pidgin is still spoken even on the campus; students are afraid they will be shunned back home as stuck-ups if they talk anything else...
...Sproul Harvard is "an extraordinary institution because in spite of its great age and prestige it still has young ideas. If Harvard were stuck in a rut it would be a terrible thing for American education. "He continually senses the" enormous stimulation which comes from having a liberal, progressive institution in a position of respect such as yours...
Lesson. In Leavenworth, Kans., a neighbor finally came to the rescue of Mrs. 0.P. Anderson, 85, who had climbed 20 ft. up a tree to pick pears, got stuck there for two hours...