Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Laon, France, a Flying Fortress got a savage jar. A bomb from another U.S. plane had struck and lodged squarely in the tail, killing the tail gunner. Lieut. Burdette Williams of Tampa, Fla. and his crew stuck with the ship, landed safely in England with the bomb still unexploded...
...There weren't anywhere near enough 6? stamps in the Islands, so most of the copies needed two hand stampings instead of one. And the boys who pasted the labels on the envelopes let the moisture soak through to the flaps, so 20,000 stamped and addressed envelopes stuck tight shut before the copies went...
Wolfers. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lieut. George Benstock, back from a tour of duty in Canada's northland, told of a wolf trapper who lost two front teeth of his store set, substituted two wolves' teeth stuck in with glue...
...Scientific Method. Dr. Fleming stuck a loop of platinum wire into the mold colony, dipped the wire into some mold-growing liquid in a test tube. In less than a week, there was a felt-like growth at the mouth of the tube and a half-inch of cloudy liquid below it. To Dr. Fleming's amazement, the liquid in which the culture grew, even when diluted 800 times, prevented staphylococci from growing at all: "It was therefore some two or three times as strong in that respect as pure carbolic acid...
...When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start, barked: "I wouldn't answer that question if I were you," fell back into a doze. When he lost his temper because his secretary mislaid a book, Mrs. Holmes found the volume, stuck an American flag in it and a big sign: "I AM A VERY OLD MAN. I HAVE HAD MANY TROUBLES, MOST OF WHICH NEVER HAPPENED." When he read the sign, Holmes laughed till he cried...