Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yule season found many of the lads travelling unbelievable distances home to loved ones, while many others stuck close to Boston and vicinity to get a glimpse at a New England Christmas. Huddy Futral made the "fool's errand" indeed. Heading for Georgia, he was delayed in Virginia, turned around and spent the feast-day in Beantown. Don Brown and his Hairy Army spent the holiday at the Brown manse in Hartford. The Winchester clique ran up to the mountains for their Christmas. Bill Cousins became one of the crowd as he gave Betty a sparkler that means more than...
...given over to an account of Mack's party for Doc. But little anecdotes of Monterey life slip in between the chapters: the story of William, the bouncer at the brothel, who was high-hatted by Mack's gang (said Mack, "I hate a pimp") and disconsolately stuck an ice pick in his heart; the story of Mr. & Mrs. Malloy, who in 1935 moved into an abandoned boiler in a vacant lot on Cannery Row, and quarreled because Mrs. Malloy wanted curtains for the windows that weren't there; the true story of Josh Billings, the famed...
...wonder is not that an occasional piece of copy or film gets stuck in the censorship filter, but that so much news gets through as swiftly as it does. Into the filter the 800 correspondents accredited to SHAEF, plus numerous unaccredited correspondents in Britain, now pour every week approximately 3,000,000 words, 35,000 still pictures, 100,000 feet of movie film...
...seven days the nation waited to see if the war's most puzzling domestic problem could be settled that simply. The strike's potentialities were paralyzing. But the women who were picketing the telephone companies were the Good Girls of U.S. industry-the heroines who had stuck by their switchboards during decades of forest fires, floods and earthquakes...
...chorus of Roll Out the Barrel the Valencia lumbered over the Italian fort. Fuses were lighted with cigarets, but there was almost disaster when the bomb stuck in the door. Finally the crew, their backs braced against the fuselage, managed to get the bomb away. The Valencia lurched crazily as the fort, squarely hit, disappeared in a cloud of smoke...