Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of their bird over the Air Force's Thor, more ambitiously designed but so far unsuccessfully flown, Army scientists produced a letter carried through space in the Jupiter's nose, jubilantly sent it off to the addressee, Research Boss Medaris, who read it and stuck it in his blouse pocket without revealing its text. Where they had previously conceded that the new mating of Thor and Jupiter might conceivably be called "Thorpiter." Army scientists now were claiming more credit, joked that they would settle for nothing less than "Thupiter...
Trouble was that of two firms licensed to make Britain's own modified Salk vaccine, only one had got into production, and this was far behind schedule. But the Ministry stuck to its guns, insisted that British vaccine is safer and more effective than the American.* British critics of the Ministry felt that it had put national pride above the welfare of polio victims in 1957. It was a good bet that with home-grown supplies still lagging, Britain would be importing straight Salk vaccine from the U.S. or Canada in time for next year's polio season...
...decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back to their ancient way of life. They stuck to it until a few years ago, when British Author Vincent (The Wise Man from the West) Cronin, who visited the Persian interior in hope of taking part in a spring migration of one tribe, found that its nomadic way had finally petered put. The Last Migration, largely based on interviews...
Despite all the porcupine quills stuck in him, Ezra Taft Benson still hopes to get a radically altered price-support program through Congress next year. Enough fresh evidence of the current program's failure has piled up, he trusts, to convince Capitol Hill that it is high time for a change...
...could he have foreseen them, would not have led him to approve the revenge taken by followers of Charles II years later. The body of Lord Protector Cromwell was dug up after the Restoration, drawn through the streets, hanged and buried under the gallows at Tyburn. His head was stuck on a pike and exhibited at Westminster Hall. No fewer than ten Cromwellians were hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross as regicides; they died well, too-so well that Author Williamson felt obliged to temper his story with an epilogue that concludes: "For posterity, the gibbet at Charing Cross...