Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much promise that he is a potential giant in U.S. history. The Warren utterances and speeches have never risen above the level of safe, dull political prose. He has rarely tried anything which had not been tried before. A calm man of Swedish descent, slow to anger, he has stuck close to the middle of the road. But the record does reveal an able, hardworking, personally attractive public servant who, with the westering sun of California behind him, is casting a longer and longer shadow across the land...
...Jimmy still gives it-but not to everybody. Introduced recently to one of the more piercing journalists, he stuck out his hand and said: "I give you the small hello...
Chief gripe of WACs at home is now that they are stuck. Said Corporal Sara Sykes at Fort Oglethorpe: "We practically drool when we hear of someone going overseas." They complain that C.O.s do not always give them enough to do. Old soldiers fear that the busy WACs are on the way to end forever the enlisted soldiers' time-honored practice of "gold bricking...
...bright in the moonlight. Immediately he released depth charges. The sub fired back with cannon, then dived. For 2 ½ hours B for Baker searched for it. saw nothing. Then suddenly R for Roger sighted it again and dove to attack from 60 feet. But Roger's bombs stuck, and on his second try shells from the battling sub wrecked his hydraulic system. Over & over he circled to keep watch on the sub while his gunner slithered in oil trying to fix the bomb releases...
...tall tale about legendary Febold Feboldson, who solved the Indian food problem by blowing the water out of the ponds so that the ducks stuck in the mud. Febold also rid the Midwest of wailing coyotes by importing (from his friend Paul Bunyan) a hundred gross of whimpering whingdings (indescribably mournful creatures who made the coyotes die of grief...