Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skill & Stickiness. Perhaps Steinbeck should have stuck to his original idea of telling just the family history. As it stands. East of Eden is a huge grab bag in which pointlessness and preposterous melodrama pop up as frequently as good storytelling and plausible conduct. Cathy's story, gamy, lurid, and told at tedious length, is all but meaningless. Almost as tiresome is the figure of Lee, the Trasks' trusted Chinese houseman, whose warmed-over Oriental wisdom and too gentle heart give the whole California story an overdose of stickiness...
Chrisdes Psoras of Quincy had three stitches taken in his lip after his car, it's accelerator stuck, raced out of Massachusetts Avenue into Harvard Square at 70 miles per hour and collided with another car entering the Square from Boylston Street at 6:10 a.m. yesterday...
...implication, the Commodity Credit Corporation never has furnished storage to farmers-it hadn't before and it has not since; 4) the Commodity Credit Corporation was selling its own grain bins as surplus at the very moment the Democrat candidate accused the Republicans of having 'stuck a pitchfork in the farmer's back.' Now, who actually stuck that pitchfork in your back? It was none other than the Democrat Administration itself...
...summers the family traveled widely, both in the U.S. and abroad. One summer the three boys were packed off to a ranch in Wyoming. There the cowboys dubbed little Dick "Suds." called Hank "Lather," and Mennen "Soapy." Much to Mrs. Williams' distress. Mennen's nickname stuck with him from that date...
...ground underfoot and spat upon and worn out, at least we ... shall have become the King's Highway in pathless China." In 20 years Francis Ford increased his flock from 9,000 to 20,000, built schools, hostels and churches. When World War II came, he stuck by his post, aiding Chinese guerrillas, helping downed Allied airmen escape, relieving war refugees in distress...