Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before he was inaugurated Vice President five months ago, Uruguayans stuck the nickname "Trumancito" on Luis Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres. It would not be long, they agreed, before he stepped into the shoes of the President-elect, old (71), frail Tomás Berreta. When Berreta flew to the U.S. to visit President Truman in February, Uruguayans wondered if it would be too much for him. When he took office in March, they wondered how long he could live. Soon he had strength enough only to conduct affairs of. state at his bedside. Last week in a Montevideo...
...week was now filled with urgency. For the next two days Harry Truman stuck close to his desk. He held a short press conference. Bills piled up. By Saturday morning, Congress had sent him 79 and he had signed 58 of them...
...Yarmouth County shook herself, peered through the enveloping gloom to see what had hit her, felt gingerly for her wound. She found it. One of the Micmac's capstans was stuck like a burr in her side...
Last week, Alfredo Palacios, now 65, was in Lima, Peru, at the invitation of ancient, august San Marcos University. In sonorous cadences he stuck pretty close to his lecture subjects-legality and liberty. Only once did he hint of his hatred for Perón and Perón's Government. During a round of goodbyes, a Peruvian student spoke of the disappearance of academic freedom from Perón-dominated universities. "I am tempted to unburden my sorrow over the situation," replied Palacios, tears brimming his eyes, "but I have promised to deal with my Government only...
...saucers in Left Bank cafes with his "First Manifesto of Surrealism," a compound of Freudianism and calculated nonsense. In those days, Marcel Duchamp (who drew U.S. catcalls in 1913 with his Nude Descending the Staircase) got high critical acclaim when he filled a birdcage full of marble cubes, stuck in a thermometer, and entitled it Why Not Sneeze? Duchamp and Breton had worked together for months assembling the screwy props for last week's screwy show...