Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ornithosis is the overall name for a disease transmitted by many species of birds, notably the parrot family, game birds and pigeons. First detected in parrots (Psittaci), it was called psittacosis, and the name has stuck...
Early one morning last week, a pert young blonde stuck her head through a rinkside doorway at Philadelphia's Arena and called to a friend across...
...said we'd take on all the categories." Bill confesses: "My brother is brighter than I am, and he didn't think my little idea was as smart as I did. But a few days later they called. There was no advance preparation at all. They just stuck us out there on the show, and we ran up $8,000 before we knew what was happening...
...escaped at last. "We were all tired from the police chase and sick from standing too long under the sun. The room we were put in had only two small windows and both were closed. Sweating and choking, we tried to open the windows, but they were stuck fast. Some of us cried. Others panicked. We knocked at the doors, but there was no answer. In despair we began preparing ourselves for death. One of the prisoners started to chant the Shahada ("There is no God but God and Mohammed is His Prophet. . ."), and the rest of us followed...
...standards) that he refuses to sit on the kitchen table before he has put "a piece of clean drawer paper under him." There is a smart lad called Red Cheeks, who has been taught by experience that it is futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator had he not believed passionately that "all education is a fraud"; he is always uttering loud groans and hurrying "to the coat cupboard, where...