Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dealer's Choice. Vainly Churchill argued that if Eden had to give up one of his three jobs-Foreign Office, House Leadership, War Cabinet-it should be the leadership of the House of Commons. Stubbornly Eden stuck to his guns. If he devoted himself exclusively to the Foreign Office, he would lose valuable contacts with members of Parliament. Inevitably, then, his bright chances of one day becoming Prime Minister would tarnish. More than that, his Foreign Office job was getting distasteful...
...Bulletin of Robert and William L. McLean Jr. was typically sedate about it all. In its advertising it stuck to its homework: "In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin." But proudly, under its Old English masthead, the 96-year-old Bulletin recorded: "February circulation 657,440 copies daily." Hearstmen would give no figure beyond that of the last available Audit Bureau of Circulation. It showed the Journal-American with a quarter-year average (July...
...grin. For twelve years, Howard Vincent O'Brien had been offering Daily News readers a pleasant column of unspectacular introspection called All Things Considered. The morning he said good-by to Donel, Columnist O'Brien caught the public where its heart is. His "So Long, Son" column stuck. Readers' Digest reprinted it. So did a score of lesser magazines, newspapers, house organs. Throughout the U.S., the farewell to Donel was read aloud to women's clubs, schools, Rotary luncheons, radio listeners. Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston and the Treasury Hour scattered it over the networks. With frankly...
...cleaned them out all right, and then I stuck my neck out again and volunteered to locate our 3rd Battalion, which was beyond a hill a mile away...
...Polifka was grounded. "He fought like a stuck pig to dice Cassino," said an officer on Lieut. General Ira Eaker's staff in Italy, "but the General just wouldn't let him go on another mission...