Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Usher L. Burdick, 65, an isolationist who had learned better. The downpour which kept farmers from the polls was rain from heaven to Gerald Nye, who gathered in 38,082 votes. Stambaugh, contrary to most North Dakota dopesters, made a surprisingly strong race; he got 37,129 votes. Burdick, stuck in the deep sludge, got 34,997. Unless North Dakota's some 8,000 yet-uncompleted absentee soldier ballots reject him, Gerald Nye is once more the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator...
...officer told of seeing German tracers ripping through other men's parachutes as they descended. In one plane nine soldiers had dived through the plane's door; the tenth, laden with his 90 pounds of equipment, got momentarily stuck. A 20-mm. shell hit him in the belly. Fuse caps in his pockets began to go off. Part of the wounded man's load was TNT. Before this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth...
...that really England? I never thought I wanted to see the goddam country again but now it looks like heaven." Some of the men had their eyes closed. Over the faces of some, blankets had been drawn. As the wounded and the dead came back, other soldiers, with flowers stuck in the camouflage netting of their tin hats, marched past them through the streets of the English town. They avoided looking at the returning troops. Now it was their turn...
...second company used four full teams (Keebler's, Pryor's, Weaver's, and Matousek's). The losers stuck to their original lineup with one exception--after backing away from the game and obtaining the long range outlook, Professor Bliss took over the keystone sack...
Henry Ford, stuck with his March 19 prediction that the war would be over in two months, stuck to his story: "I had information at that time that led me to believe the war would or could be over within two months. I am sorry, as a lot of other people must be, that it is not over...