Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accustomed as I have been in civilian life to reading at least two papers daily, to be stuck in the South Pacific with no news other than the sketchy headline flashes of the radio is a minor calamity...
...beleaguered Bataan and Corregidor, Annalee shared the troops' experience in everything but firing guns and flying planes. She ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine-stuck it out with our boys for two bitter months. You may remember Jacoby's on-the-spot reports on how the Japs dished it out and our men took it as some of the most vivid, angry reporting ever to appear in the pages of TIME & LIFE...
...weeks ago farmers were thoroughly alarmed by a dark prediction: since the war was nearly over, the U.S. would be stuck with stockpiles of food that would glut the markets and scuttle prices. Last week WFA decided that this prospect had faded. If the European war runs through the winter, stockpiles of wheat, corn, etc. will soon be down to reasonable sizes. Typical example: in three years the U.S. has consumed 400 million more bushels of corn than it produced...
When European engineers dismissed his invention as incredible, Tesla sailed for Manhattan and went to work in Edison's laboratory. The two did not hit it off; Tesla insisted that alternating current was the thing for power; Edison stuck stubbornly to direct...
...General Was Frank. Last week Allied Commander in Chief General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander conceded that the campaign was stuck. In his first interview in six months, quiet, expert Alexander agreed that the Gothic Line break in September was a failure: the autumn rains had bogged down the drive before the Po Valley was conquered. Said the General...