Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price skids, they allegedly shipped some of their aging onions out of Chicago, had them culled, resorted and repacked, and then sent back to Chicago #151;to make it appear as though large quantities of new onions were pouring into town. As the price fell, the growers were stuck with small mountains of high-priced onions...
...nail, Dr. Equen pulled the string and slowly worked the nail up through the digestive tract and out the boy's mouth. In seven years he took assorted hardware from the insides of 16 other youngsters, but then met a stubborn case where a nail had been stuck in a boy's duodenum for three weeks. The little magnet would not budge it. So the doctor got two bigger magnets, placed them over the boy's body above the little one, and thus gave it their added pull. By moving them over a snaky course following...
...while it worked fine. Subtly substituting their own obedient ivories for the Casino's more capricious cubes as occasion demanded, the three picked up 2,300,000 francs ($6,570) between them. Then something went wrong; the Casino dice that Aggie had temporarily removed from the contest got stuck in his sleeve, and he had to pass the croupier a loaded pair. A cherubic, bow-tied observer with the look of a house detective tipped the nod to the croupier, who promptly raked in the dice, and the three Californians, sensing that their good fortune might...
...Trans-Canada, a firm originally set up by Texas Oilman Clint Murchison and still 83% owned by U.S. gas and oil interests. Some of the opponents of the loan held out for a public-owned pipeline; others demanded that the money be lent to a Canadian company. The government stuck to its argument that Trans-Canada was the only builder with the equipment and know-how to begin the pipeline this year. Four times during the angry debate, the Liberals invoked the detested, rarely used closure rule to ram the measure through...
...slow-talking star of No Time for Sergeants does one of his wide-eyed explanations, this time of grand opera. The singers, he drawls, are high-priced and have "high roofs to their mouths." As for Carmen, she's "looking at this 'Escamilla' like she was stuck on him, and you can see why ". . . because he's a rale spowart. He lives about as far up town...