Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding "Trouble in the Air," there's also plenty of it on the ground. Those of us who signed on as "Christmas help" when Korea broke have got stuck with the package-wrapping detail, and we're pretty darned sore...
...Finally-although the opening at the top was only 18 inches across-the boy squeezed himself down inside the tree, bracing his feet against a rotten projection. He hoped to look for coons in a hollow limb part way down. But his foothold broke. Roger slid down 20 feet, stuck momentarily and began sliding again. Skinned, startled and breathless, he landed at the bottom...
...Stanky stuck it out through eight years in the minors. Three of them, happily, were spent under Manager Milton Stock, now a Pittsburgh Pirates coach, who was part owner of the Macon, Ga. team in the Sally (South Atlantic) League. Stanky recalls his minor-league experience as an unending series of brawls (35 fist fights) and rows with umpires ("I got tossed out of 15 or 20 games a year"). Stock, Stanky now says, "taught me to control my temper." This may be giving Stock too much credit, but he did teach Stanky that being thrown out of games hurts...
...spite of fame & fortune, Gregg stuck by his Chicago school. He was a bubbly little man who lived for shorthand (he used it in his own personal letters to his graduates) and wanted his school to be the best in the U.S. As the years passed, his curriculum became more & more elaborate. He gave courses in business law, mathematics, and personal grooming. He had 48-week courses for secretaries, a nine-month course for college graduates, a three-year course for court reporters, including such specialities as congressional reporting and three-voice testimony. His only worry about the school...
...chairman recorded my name on the Arizona list. He turned and stuck out his hand...