Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroine sometimes tried to follow threads of reality through her blacked-out mind, but her memory was "swathed in wet gray chiffon that stuck to the . . . part she wanted most to examine." One, night, in a brief moment of sanity, she thought: "Here on [a] narrow cot, clothed in a numbered nightgown, [I lie] with women who [are] insane and [I am] one of them." After almost a year at Juniper Hill, Virginia was pronounced cured-but not before she and her fellow patients had been treated to shock therapy, hydrotherapy, psychoanalytical questionings, paraldehyde dosings and old-fashioned madhouse discipline...
Many a good burgher had been stuck up with a souvenir pistol from Germany...
Last week 39-year-old Captain Clifford, who had stuck to his desk and never gone to sea, took over as President Truman's Naval Aide...
...Brewing Co. had been labeling its beer "Canadian Ace" since 1939, spent $750,000 advertising it. In 1943 FTC decided that "Canadian Ace" tended to mislead the public into believing the beer came from Canada. The company suggested adding a big "Made in U.S.A." to the label, but FTC stuck to its ruling that "Canadian Ace" could not be used. Commissioner Mason took a good layman's look at the offending label, reported: "It is hard to tell exactly what this label does to me. . . . Every time I stare at it, I get a different emotion...
...pile, a rather simple device, consists of uranium rods stuck through a large mass of graphite. Some uranium atoms-those with an atomic weight of 235-split in two, producing energy and shooting out neutrons, which are subatomic particles with zero electric charge. These are the lifeblood of the pile...