Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freedom, proposed Philippine "neutrality" -which, in effect, would have turned the islands over to Japan. But Franklin Roosevelt assured him that the U.S. would fight to the last American for the Philippines; and Douglas MacArthur, getting ready to retreat to Australia, promised to return. Quezon, and the Philippines, stuck...
...Mikolajczyk, undeterred by the dim prospect for an honest polling of the people's will, stuck to his guns. Said he: "If the referendum is honest we will have a definite no majority." But in any case, he added, the "people will know who really won, and so will the Government...
...this point the U.S. stuck its neighborly nose into the deal and raised a loud, bad-neighborly squawk. Washington protested that an exclusive, two-way transaction (at 60? a bushel less than the U.S. price) would shut U.S. wheat out of the British market. This did not matter now, but in years of surplus crops it might cost the U.S. farmer plenty. Furthermore, the State Department warned that the British loan, still awaiting House approval, might lose enough votes from the wheat-producing West to be defeated. Britain bowed; Strachey flew home empty handed...
...right, darling. I shall never travel in the stratosphere again." Bird-necked Professor Auguste Piccard made that solemn promise to his wife in 1932, just after he had ballooned to the stratosphere from Switzerland and landed with a wallop across the Alps. Last week, still stuck with his pledge, the Swiss scientist announced that he would try exploring in the opposite direction: next February he will head for the bottom of the ocean...
...past 36 years these clashing facts threw off like sparks, bright, brief but sometimes kindling, the enterprises known as little magazines. There were hundreds, a 20th Century phenomenon. Mostly young people published them, wrote for them, read them, fought for them, ruined them, made them ridiculous or triumphant, stuck with them or more commonly got bored and moved on. Naturally no one took them as seriously as they took themselves, not even the three scholars who have now written a just and orderly account of them...