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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Brer Rabbit slapping Tar Baby, Goodie found his hand stuck. Knowland expressed "surprise" at Knight's argument, unveiled a five-year-old letter in which Knight lamented the state legislature's failure to pass a right-to-work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Right to Lose | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...already known as a highly successful tournament player, Goren published his first book, Winning Bridge Made Easy. In it he prophetically deviated from the Culbertson system. For suit bids, Goren stuck pretty much to Culbertson's elaborate "honor trick" count, but for no-trump bidding he adopted Milton Work's method of evaluating a hand with a point count: four points for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack. Entranced by the point count's simplicity, Goren devoted numberless hours to expanding the idea into a general bidding method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Aces | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

Mountaineer Ullman has stuck to the few known facts of Rimbaud's story, has imagined the unknown credibly enough. But in the end, he has after all unearthed only Claude Morel. Arthur Rimbaud and his bellyful of bitter dead still lie buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Damnedest of the Damned | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...Chinese airfields, but Midway was having a run of hard luck. One F3H squadron had lost two pilots and three planes in accidents within the week. The day I joined Force 77 the squadron's skipper, Commander Walter Heider of Coronado, Calif., died when his throttle apparently stuck after landing and his plane plunged overboard out of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE TENSE TIGER | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Back in the borscht belt, Jennie Grossinger sorrowed: "Debbie is adorable and so is Eddie. Two nicer people they don't come. I hope it'll blow over like little grey clouds." But the clouds kept darkening-as far away as Miami. There, Artist Ralph Cowan was stuck with a life-size portrait of Debbie that she had ordered for Eddie's birthday. "Now she doesn't want it," said Cowan. He also had a portrait of Liz on hand. "The man who ordered it never finished the payments." So Cowan shipped it to an eager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Just Friends | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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