Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, the audience waiting to see the world premiere of The Living Room, the first play from the pen of Novelist Graham Greene, was kept waiting for a while. Reason: Author Greene had got stuck in an apartment elevator, and was 20 minutes late getting to the theater. Next day the Dagens Nyheter critic reported: "A dull play but smartly done, almost too smartly done...
Pretty Good Doctrine. The U.S., he said, did not want to keep its Korean and Chinese war prisoners. It polled them at the Reds' request and was dismayed to learn that 30% were afraid to go home. Now, said Acheson. the U.S. is stuck with the problem; it could not agree to send men home against their will to what may be death. Acheson recounted five separate unsuccessful attempts to persuade the Reds to let some neutral agency resurvey the prisoners' desires...
...name stuck. So did Mieczyslaw's determination to find his real father. Before the war they had all lived together on a farm in eastern Poland. Then the Russians marched in, split Poland with the Nazis, captured Mieczyslaw's father, and moved mother & child, along with tens of thousands of other Poles, to Kazakhstan, where they were put to work on a Soviet collective farm. Mieczyslaw's father wrote later that he had joined General Anders' Polish army. Years went by. The war ended and Mieczyslaw and his mother were moved to a village near Breslau...
Manhattan's old Aeolian Hall, but the Duke stuck to his own style and rapidly built up a following. By 1935, most of the U.S. was humming such Ellington compositions as Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady and Solitude...
Balance of Power. In Brooklyn, after his wife's job promotion at the blouse factory "went to her head," Thomas Brennan had her quickly demoted when he called on the factory owner, stuck a gun in his ribs, said: "Demote her or I'll blow your head...