Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fame spread outside the state, and by the 1924 Democratic Convention he had begun his great losing battle for the White House. Franklin Roosevelt put his name in nomination for President, and gave him the nickname that stuck for the rest of his life-"The Happy Warrior." It was not Al Smith's year. He was a Catholic and a Wet, and the Southerners and the Drys were against him. But by 1928 a Democratic boom for Al Smith swept the country. When the convention met at Houston, Tex., the opposition forces of 1924 had swung behind...
...field telephone buzzed. The colonel listened and growled into it: "We're still going but some of my companies are damned small." A Jap mortar opened up and the men around the colonel flattened out. The C.O. himself did not change his position. He stuck out his chest and spat: "The bastards...
...Irish immigrants (his father was a Boston Elevated blacksmith), tall, rugged, liberal Archbishop Gushing has spent all of his 49 years in Boston. Unlike Cardinal O'Connell, who was aloof and often absent from Boston, the new Archbishop has always kept his latchstring out, always stuck close to his job. That job, since 1929, has been the direction of Boston's Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and Gushing is a name known & loved in the farthest Catholic missions...
...Rausch stuck to his prediction. He knows that the Ford company can do what most others cannot-it can make its own machine tools in the integrated Rouge plant. But he also knew something which had been carefully soft-pedaled before the newsmen. Come V-E day, the hyper-competitive automen will clear their plants of Government-owned equipment and materials in their own way, argue with the Government later on how it should have been done. Thus the two days of foofaraw simply boiled down to the fact that the automen sensibly wanted to scrap now the tangle...
...ruddy-faced clergyman who had given up his parish to become a book agent (the Episcopal Church in the South was demoralized after the Revolution), Parson Weems for 31 years bounced over the early U.S. roads with his Jersey wagon loaded with good books. He carried a quill pen stuck in his hat, an inkhorn in his lapel, and his fiddle on the wagon seat beside him. "He stopped now and then at a pond or a stream to wash his shirt and take a bath, suspending his linen to dry on the frame of the wagon...