Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lunch date with Mrs. Truman. At lunchtime he got up, stuck his head into the room next to his office, and asked: "Where the hell is the boss?" The boss was on time...
...pound charge went off like a popgun. It was disappointing. Then the "battleship" really erupted. A flat piece of steel, blew up like wastepaper in a column of grey smoke. Concrete chunks showered the water for hundreds of yards around. From a hole on top, reinforcing steel pieces stuck up like pitchfork prongs. Smoke poured out of everywhere-from the sallyports, vents, turrets. If the concussion didn't kill the Japs, Colonel Soule (promoted to brigadier general the next day) was sure they were baked or suffocated. Proudly his task force waddled back to Corregidor...
...honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
...sunshine boys were basking in the quadrangle, an announcement of the war's end brought momentary happiness until Puckett's microphone stuck its ugly head out the window. Climax of the unhappy incident was the appearance of a guillible Midshipman who had his bags packed (literally) ready to leave for home...
...embarrassed mother explained to the other passengers, "Well, all right. It's stuck, and we're going to a doctor to have it removed." Kiss Proof. In China, a Chinese Medical Corps officer cautioned the Army about difficulties attendant on the induction of women, said that while his daughter was in the service she had learned to manufacture lipstick out of mercurochrome and vaseline...