Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers overseas, rotation (periodic furloughs home) is one of the grim jokes of the war. Homesick G.I.s stuck in New Guinea for the past two years recently composed their own G.I. version of eligibility "for relief via rotation...
...trying to keep a firm hand on the valve, stuck to its new ceilings, and hoped. Steel and meat prices are potent components in the cost of living; if they get out of hand, the whole price structure totters...
...Speaker also had a word about isolationism: "I was not proud of my country after the close of the last war. We walked out on the rest of the world, stuck our head in the sand and said: 'Let the rest of the world go by; we can live here unto ourselves.' Sadly we found out that could not be done...
Their descriptions of the apparition varied, but they agreed that the mysterious flares stuck close to their planes and appeared to follow them at high speed for miles. One pilot said that a foo-fighter, appearing as red balls off his wing tips, stuck with him until he dove at 360 miles an hour; then the balls zoomed up into...
...beleaguered did what little they could about Christmas. Some who had shelter in houses brought in fir trees, decorated them with paper and any sort of bright bit that stuck out of the rubble. Pfc. William Horton hung on one tree a tiny celluloid doll-one of its eyes had been punched out. His buddies called the doll "Purple Heart Mary." To the accompaniment of bombs and ack-ack Major Charles Fife puffed out tunes on an ocarina, and the men hummed carols...