Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...therefore, gentlemen, so far from pleading for my own sake, as one might expect, I plead for your sakes, that you may not offend about God's gift by condemning me. For if you put me to death, you will not easily find such another, really like something stuck on the state by the god, though it is rather laughable to say so; for the state is like a big thoroughbred horse, so big that he is a bit slow and heavy, and wants a gadfly to wake him up. I think the god put me on the state...
...Kefauvered along, Stevenson used a defensive offense. He abandoned his difficult technique of making a different speech at every stop, and stuck to one line. Its main point was a denial of the Kefauver argument that Stevenson is the candidate of party "bosses." Stevenson called the charge "false and divisive nonsense" (which is not exactly Kefauver talk). "I have come to California," he said, "to express my indignation of things said of my friends. I never thought I would see the day when Democrats would denounce each other in such an unfair and unfounded manner...
...salesman, army officer, exporter and timber evaluator for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an Ivy League degree was assumed to be part of a U.S. diplomat's equipment. In such company Canadian-born Angus Ward, who spoke with a Scottish burr and who had no degree at all, stuck out like a sore thumb...
Back over the Amman airport, the plane's nose wheel stuck in the well. For 20 minutes Hussein circled the field, waggling the wings to try to shake the wheel down into position, was finally advised from the ground to use an emergency bottle of compressed air, which slammed the wheel into place with a shock that shook the plane like an explosion. Says the King airily: "All this worry about my flying is silly. I've taken off from the desert at night by the lights of automobile head lamps. I've flown with overweight loads...
Special Detail. In Chicago, Patrolman Walter Binder, in a stake-out at a service station, was stuck up by two gunmen who lifted $225 from the till, trussed up the cop, stole his pistol and wristwatch...