Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell you that . . . you really hit the well-known nail on the head. ... I hit Prague just as the thing was beginning, and during the ten days I stuck around ... I met members of many of the delegations and I found them a particularly uninteresting lot, this quality springing from their calcified mental attitudes and "canned" arguments. The members of the American delegation whom I met were especially depressing. One sweet young thing continually harped on the theme that most of the people in America didn't know what they were doing when they fought against Communism, that they...
...Chinese self-reform before any further U.S. assistance to the Chinese Government. When President Truman sent Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer to China in Marshall's footsteps this summer, the Chinese thought that the U.S. might be getting ready to act. But last week, U.S. policy still seemed stuck...
Lewis hated the work. Heavy theological argument with topflight minds is his greatest pleasure, but he is too much of an intellectual snob to enjoy answering not-very-bright questions. He doggedly stuck to this chore as part of his duty to Church and country, but he once wryly blamed his unpleasant war work on the "unscrupulousness of God." Said he: "I certainly never intended being a hot gospeler. If I had only known this when I became a Christian...
Canby writes with complacency of having "stuck his neck out" in a favorable review of one of Sherwood Anderson's early books. He also held out alone on the Book-of-the-Month Club jury for Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. But such bravado was obviously rare. For Canby is not a daring or a penetrating critic. On the other hand, by his industry, fluency, and sincere impulse to "pass on sound values to the reading public," he made a place for himself in his period. He is as competent as any prophet to observe...
...center that looked like a sure triple. In center field, the Philadelphia Phillies' fleet Harry Walker started moving fast. As ball and outfielder converged under the floodlights, Walker pushed his spiked shoes in front of him, dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered in Robinson's drive -barely off the grass. The fans gasped, then burst into a cheer. They cheered again the next time Harry Walker came to bat. Whatever his play might cost Brooklyn, it was a beauty...