Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waged a good campaign. He stuck to local issues, made quiet, good-humored speeches, drank beer (which he dislikes) with the boys in the precinct clubs. He emphasized that he was no politician. Said one G.O.P. worker glumly: "Kennelly is running on his sainthood...
...regimental surgeon on front-line duty in the Chaco war.' During his political career he has been jailed seven times, exiled six. Once, he was horsewhipped, burned, bayonetted and thrown bleeding on his cell floor. But when other prisoners marched by, he rose, put on his coat and stuck a flower in his buttonhole to show them he was still all right. He collects colonial paintings, admires Harold Laski, and says he is so healthy he can "eat bricks fried in automobile...
When Viscount Mountbatten, India's new Viceroy, skidded and bounced his car off the road near Basingstoke, Hampshire, the ex-Commandoman jumped out, stuck up his thumb, hitched to London in a passing bus, which got him there for a date with the Prime Minister...
...Stuck to his self-imposed vow of silence on politi cal matters...
Other stores have tried the automatic system. But none has been as successful, chiefly because they have not been able to get enough merchandise at all times, nor at low enough prices. And it takes shrewd buying by Filene's to keep from getting stuck with "bargains." Said Vice President Harold D. Hodgkinson: "The customers really decide what are bargains. You just have to be right oftener than you're wrong...