Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Guts Will Ache." Despite his habitual wordiness, Wolfe could catch the feel of a place in a single line. To Elizabeth Nowell, his literary agent and the editor of this volume, he described the Midwest as "fat as a hog and so fertile you felt that if you stuck a fork in the earth the juice would spurt." Brooklyn was a "vast sprawl upon the face of the earth, which no man alive or dead has yet seen in its foul, dismal entirety...
...ship yaw from side to side. Besides, she was heading south full of highly volatile free gases left (because of an evaporator breakdown) from her last load of crude. A single bump, a single spark, could explode the gas in an instant mass of flame. Skipper Aniello Coppola stuck close to the bridge, watching every move...
...switched to a jockey's saddle Johnny found the going tougher. In his first year (1927) he won one out of 16 starts, earned all of $980. As it always is, advice was available from every quarter, and it all added up to one word: quit. But Johnny stuck around. When other jocks were living it up, he worked around the barns, walked hots, rode as an exercise boy. He learned about horses and, inevitably, he began...
...Conway Ivy has been at the center of a medical storm ever since he an nounced, five years ago, that he was experimenting with a secret cancer drug named Krebiozen. After studying several independent, critical assays, the A.M.A. flatly rejected Krebiozen as a treatment. Undismayed, Ivy and two colleagues stuck to their work, have now summarized it in their first public report...
Quality Control. In Passaic, N.J., thieves lifted a dilapidated pair of shoes, an old shirt and a necktie from the apartment of Arthur Church, left a note: "How in hell can honest crooks like us make a decent living when we get stuck with junk like yours...