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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual banquets have been so primitive that every eatery in the area, except Chez Dreyfus, now refuses to extend its services to the Advocate. Since the damage at Chez Dreyfus last year was pretty severe (one member stuck his fork into the wall up to the handle), it is probably just as well that the magazine is getting a new building. There soon will be no other place available for annual banquets...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Advocate: Danger Was Once Sweet | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

Feeling not at all sure that it could count on the West, Israel battened down its hatches for trouble. It wanted peace but feared to sound weak, and stuck to its martial air in the week when the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned it for the fourth "flagrant violation" of the Palestine armistice in three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Hard Life | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

President Eisenhower seemed unbothered by these mounting pressures. He stuck to his desk and his schedule, still testing his heart, his body and stamina before making a final decision about running again. At workweek's end, he went to his studio on the second floor of the White House, faced his easel and painted under a north light. It seemed that at least Dwight Eisenhower was relaxed-even if nobody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Time for Testing | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Worst People on Earth." The Aucas have been described by one scientist as "the worst people on earth." Relatively well-built and lightskinned, they wear little except bright body paint, with a pair of feathers stuck at a Daliesque angle in holes pierced in each nostril. A pure Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, live only to hunt, fight and kill. Their most notable products are needle-sharp, 9-ft. hardwood spears for use against human foes. Their neighbors, the Jivaro Indians, Ecuador's famed, ferocious headhunters, are said to pale with fear at the very mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Mission to the Aucas | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Victim. In Clinton, Tenn., returning from the kitchen, Waitress Pearl Hogue spotted a would-be thief as he stuck his hand in the cash register, flung a cup of coffee in his face, sent him scurrying out the door as she bounced the pot off his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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