Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moines. As the train passed down through the corn-hog country the farmers left their fields to wave and crane for a sight of the candidate. In Iowa City a crowd of 5,000 (out of a population of 27,000) got caught in a chilly rain but stuck out the discomfort until Ike had finished his talk...
...offers for a settlement by the British and one by the International Bank, two sessions of the World Court at The Hague, one of the U.N. Security Council, three Iranian cabinets and uncounted buckets of tears from Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. Nothing worked. The U.S. intervened just enough to get stuck with a large measure of the blame for the mess, but not enough to clean it up. Washington did put some pressure on London to make concessions to the Iranians, but by & large the only U.S. policy throughout was to tag along behind the British...
...That spring evening in 1900, they came and called up to my room . . . The late Frank Simonds [the future historian and war correspondent] . . . heard the call, and just for a joke stuck his head out of his window and repeated the call. The cry was taken up ... Within a few minutes the Yard was a bedlam...
Silicone Sticker. Linde Air Products Co. told about a compound that forms a "bridge" between plastic and glass. Plastics reinforced with glass fibers have not proved as strong as they theoretically should be. One trouble is that the plastic does not always stay stuck to the fibers. Moisture may penetrate the "interfaces" and make the two elements separate...
...marksmen gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a feather stuck in the band. The firearms were out of the ordinary too: long-barreled pistols, archaic-looking rifles decorated with carvings, etched designs and inlays. They were all old-style muzzle-loaders-flintlocks or caplocks*-and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans...