Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until noon in a bathrobe, read "the three newspapers"-the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the Washington Post-spent his afternoons tapping his pipelines. The best of these were longtime friends in the British Embassy. He gathered his news in personal interviews, not at cocktail parties. Pertinax stuck to his lifelong rule against purely speculative stories, which he feels U.S. columnists overdo. His motto: get to the root of the facts and the conclusion should become self-evident...
During the frantic race to build the atomic bomb, many incidental discoveries were made and put on ice. Among the most important: the radioactive by-products of the uranium-graphite pile. Almost any substance, stuck in the pile's atomic furnace, comes out brimming with radioactivity...
...line popped into my mind: A bunch of the boys were whooping it up, and it stuck there." That night, in the teller's cage of the bank, Service wrote his famed Shooting of Dan McGrew aided by the bank guard who fired at him, under the impression that he was a burglar...
...capacity for work, startled no one by his stubborn insistence on interpreting the will of Congress as the law of the land. As War Mobilizer he had a thankless job which gave him all of the grief of running a war and none of the glory. He stuck it out as long as he could...
...many merchants will be stuck with unsalable stocks of ersatz goods. Reason: they have no stocks left. Said one retail store manager: "Our stocks are as clean as a hound's tooth...