Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
...news papers have made their own language as they went along. Their independence has been limited only by type, column widths, and their own often curious taste. Even Franklin Roosevelt, an old phrase coiner, got nowhere with his "War for Survival." The press* made it World War II, which stuck...
...Stuck Needle. In Hartford, Conn., a motorist parked outside the police station while he paid a $1 fine for illegal parking, returned to find a ticket for illegal parking...
...Bracken's letter, and hundreds of others like it, came to us as a result of our putting TIME back on a prompt delivery schedule to the British Isles. For four long years our readers there have stuck by us through one of the most miserable delivery schedules on record. Owing to wartime exchange restrictions, we could send only 3,077 copies of TIME to Britain...
...Please accept my assurance that there was no malicious intent. . . . It was the farthest thing from my mind to want to cause you any mental anguish. . . . As I have since told people, you were one of my favorite teachers and that's why your name has stuck with me through all the years...