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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Familiar Tune. Up rose white-haired Dan Tobin, for 37 years the absolute boss of the Teamsters. He stuck out the majestic Tobin stomach, and ordered the waiters to clear out. Then he sat down again, and the show was on the air. When, at last, the Tobin gravel voice had stopped quivering the rosy Tobin jowls, and the six-minute ovation was over, the President spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Magic | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...Commanding its sweep was a red-brick tower: old Fort Belvedere, a relic of Charlemagne's reign. The lower floors of Belvedere had in peacetime housed a tea room, its tower had been a tourist lookout. Now Belvedere was a fort again. Out of its doors and windows stuck the ugly snouts of German antitank guns. Atop the tower were more guns, snipers, and lookouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Battle of Desperation | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Tripartition. Two facts stuck out of this formula with bayonet sharpness: 1) the plan amounted to a partition of Germany-and the political and economic consequences for Europe might not be so apparent to Washington as they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Formula for Germany | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...Animals. In Antwerp, joyous burghers rounded up remaining Germans and collaborationists, stuck them in empty cages at the zoo-officers in the lion house, Belgian Fascists in the tiger pens, wailing women in the wildcat cages. The day before, a troop of flustered "Mice"-grey-clad German women auxiliaries-had piled their belongings on a truck, which then drove off. The truck was driven by members of Belgium's underground "White Brigade," would never reach the Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Freedom! | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...crack the tough problem of designing a plane whose wings could be folded back, making it possible to pack more on an aircraft carrier. With his feet cocked on his desk, he picked up a square gum eraser and a handful of paper lips and went to work. He stuck the clips m the eraser, worked them back & forth until he had the solution. He believes you can "see things that way you can't on a blueprint." Hellcat wings now fold back as neatly as a bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Embattled Farmers | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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