Word: stucke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Worcester, Virginia Mistark, a 14-year-old high-school student, waited for more than half an hour to give Taft a yellow daffodil. He smiled and stuck the flower into his lapel. When Virginia remarked that she might be late for class, he took her notebook and penned a note to her teacher: "Please excuse Virginia Mistark for being late. I delayed her. Robert A. Taft...
Kefauver exuded energy, good will and sincerity. His corn came out cornflakes, full of modern, vitaminized pop, crackle and snap. He was a serious fellow, who seemed only to slap backs and ride kids' bicycles because he is warm and human and not stuck up, and likes people. The Democratic professionals in Washington were horrified. Last week, no longer able to pooh-pooh Kefauver as an amateur and an upstart, they were taking serious steps to stop him at any cost...
...year-old C-47 never before carried such strange armaments or unusual people. Instead of guns, the army ingloriously stuck a huge loudspeaker into the old "Gooney Bird's" black belly. And every night, two young Korean girls, looking like high school students, clambered into the "Gooney Bird" and settled down for a night's work...
...never ate much and sometimes annoyed his three brothers by curling up with a book rather than help with the chores. He was christened Peter John, and called P.J. as a boy, but he preferred Fulton (his mother's maiden name), and used it until it stuck. His father was a Roman Catholic who had drifted out of the Church but came back to it, and P.J. grew up in a good Catholic home, where no evening passed without the Rosary being recited. Priests often dropped in for supper, or just to talk. Fulton wanted to be a priest...
Last week the airline also had good news for the British government, which owns it, and which has been stuck with yearly losses as big as $33 million. BOAC Managing Director Whitney Straight reported that in the fiscal year ended in March, BOAC would probably show a net profit of about ?500,000 ($1,400,000), the first profit in its history...