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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing Missing. Everybody looked furiously around, consulted, denounced and denied. The New York Sun brushed aside the Los Alamos episode and stuck to its Oak Ridge story. Oak Ridge authorities checked every paper and piece of machinery and declared that nothing of importance was missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Atomic Souvenirs | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...close to one hip, then passed over the bull's head and horns when he charges. He stood there with the muleta almost directly behind him, his body between the muleta and the bull, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that if the bull had stuck its tongue out it could have licked him. The crowd, which had booed everybody all week, went mad. (Pamplona crowds are notoriously hard to please because during fiesta week they dance the fandango and drink all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No. 2 1 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...movie that concern the flying are all good. Howard Da Silva, playing the worried owner of the airlines, is natural and convincing. William Bendix takes over every scene in which he is, as a hedgehopping pilot and a friend of the family. One wishes that the movie had stuck to the flying story and left out the drab plot surrounding Anne Baxter, who is unpleasantly water-eyed almost all the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

...bumped into an Italian woman who had rushed forward to ask that her son be allowed to go to Argentina. Eva got out to help, promised that the woman's petition would be granted. Next day, as she had done in Spain, she visited public nurseries, stuck lire into grimy, outstretched hands, talked steadily about her love for children and the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Little Eva | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...combined probe into the fantastic finance of invasion currency, they were shocked to discover how the plans had miscarried. In the words of New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, Morgenthau and Army and Cabinet co-planners had been so "naive, gullible or stupid" that the U.S. had been stuck for the whopping sum of $250 million in invasion marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Funny Money | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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