Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zinc Trap. In Brooklyn, 280-pounder Bertha Singer found herself stuck in the bathtub, was wrenched by her son, tugged by a police emergency squad, lubricated with cooking oil, after 17 hours was pried...
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho substituted for Columnist Leonard Lyons for a day, managed to fill a column despite a handicap. "To write a gossip column," he explained, "you have to be up and about among lively company. But I have been stuck in Washington for almost two years now and . . . talk is much more interesting in Pocatello...
...most part, Smithsonian scientists stuck to "description," that amiable super-hobby which leads learned men to scour the earth for rarities. Working always on a shoestring, they explored the West, dug up dinosaurs, collected insects, mollusks, birds, minerals...
...backward look by the Bureau of Labor Statistics etched the meaning of a trend of little boosts. The pre-wholesale prices of 28 basic commodities had risen a thumping 22.4% since the beginning of July. One big boost still stuck. From June 15 to July 15 retail food prices had soared 13.8%, the largest monthly jump in the 43 years since the Bureau had been keeping tab on them. (Actually, the real price to the consumer did not go up quite as much because of the abolition of subsidies on decontrolled products, which he must no longer pay via taxes...
...Democratic U.S. Senator Jim Mead, whose war profits investigating committee had just about run out of headlines, was keeping in training by making speeches. He was acting exactly like a man who is going to be nominated for governor, which he is almost sure to be; the Democrats are stuck with their war-fraud investigator whether they like...