Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connolly knew that sooner or later, by accident or design, most highbrow "little mags" duck down some intellectual by path.* At its end is a trap: mixed up in parlor politics, or tripped up by literary politics, they spend their days tootling for whatever cause they are stuck with. To save his long-haired baby from that fate, Connolly kept its own horizon wide. He refused to embrace - or to exclude - any cultural point of view, held to a catholic determination to work both sides of civilization's broad thoroughfares...
Churchill stuck to his bedroom for much of the journey. But the President was on the rear platform at almost every stop, offering his hand to anyone who could reach it. At St. Louis, on the return trip, he appeared on the platform with his striped pajamas showing under the topcoat he had thrown over his shoulders...
While London and Washington stuck doggedly to a "moderate" policy, Moscow cried out against Anglo-American "inadequacy," called for a "radical solution . . . immediate rupture of diplomatic relations with Franco. . . . As is well known, the Soviet Government . . . does not maintain any relations with Franco Spain." This week Washington and London declined to join Paris in citing Franco before the UNO Security Council as a menace to world peace. But Moscow agreed to go along...
...Paul. In Springfield, Mo., Farmer William N. Thompson stuck up Bank No. 1, was nabbed before he could pay off his mortgage to Bank...
...lecture hall was Surabaya's Rex Cinema, hot, humid and jampacked with soldiers. Britain's former Ambassador to Russia and next Ambassador to the U.S. stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...