Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attlee stuck to Labor's line that it was the old imperialism that had declined, fallen and been buried beneath the weight of colonial peoples' drive for freedom. Said Attlee: "We do not desire to retain within the Commonwealth and Empire any unwilling peoples...
Early one morning last week, in East Orange, N.J., four-year-old Tommy Stanley got hold of half an orange. He tried to swallow it, got it stuck in his throat, choked & choked. His father banged him futilely on the back, then yelled for a doctor. Luckily, there was one in the house -Tommy's uncle. Dr. Thomas A. Stanley (a postgraduate surgery student) saw that Tommy was strangling. He seized a kitchen carving knife; there was no time to sterilize it, nor for an anesthetic. While Papa and Mama held Tommy flat on the living room couch...
Doughty Waldbrunner stuck it for weeks, then fled to Vienna, where he announced his resignation. While Austria's Communists seized the incident to accuse the Government of "abandoning" its emissaries, Braunias held on in Moscow. To keep going, said his wife tearfully in Vienna, he was selling his very clothes, now a jacket, now a pair of trousers...
...Constitutional Committee proposed, first of all, that membership on the new Council be elected from the Houses, with regard for no Class save the Sophomores, who would be underrepresented in the Houses. This proposition evidently stuck in the full Council's craw, and this section, together with some others, has been sent back to the Committee with the recommendation that further consideration be given to Class representation. The Council, although seemingly nullifying some ten-weeks work of its committee, has actually taken a long range point of view in realizing that Class currents, totally disrupted by the war, will again...
...students trudge to their classes in knee-deep snow and 30-below temperatures. They were so used to the view that only a few paused to look off at 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley, in the distance, copper-red in the glare of a dead-of-winter sun. Skis stuck in the snow made picket fences around the dorms...