Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German ; he kept in trim by hiking every day around his P.W. camp; he secretly tailored civilian clothes from his blankets. Then one dark night, pushing their homemade clothes before them, Cogny and three companions elbow-crawled naked through a drainpipe that led out beneath the camp walls-getting stuck for an agonized 15 minutes on the way. At the drainpipe outlet, Cogny heard alarm sirens and the snuffling of a huge German police dog. "I lay there without breathing," he said, "and for some reason the dog trotted off without barking." Cogny scrambled across the barbed wire, across Bavaria...
Promptly at noon White got the meeting under way. The crowd was noisy and restless. Stockholders stood by their seats, clamoring for recognition, or wandered aimlessly around the room. White stuck to his agenda, but soon his chairman's gavel was drowned out by the hubbub. Finally, he got through the nomination of the two opposing slates for the 15-man board of directors. He announced that the voting would include two resolutions sponsored by Mrs. Wilma Soss, the vocal president of the Federation of Women Shareholders and the holder of ten shares (plus about 1,000 proxies). Then...
...midst of it, President Eisenhower seemed to be above the storm. He stuck steadfastly to one of his favorite military maxims: long faces never won a battle. Stoutly defending his Administration against attacks, he exuded, at last week's White House press conference, the confidence of a commanding general...
...last spring a young (28) Manhattan musician named Fernando Valenti found himself stuck in a customs office in Peru. That big instrument he had with him, said the officials, was undeniably a piano, and therefore subject to import duty. It was not a piano, insisted Valenti; it was a harpsichord. Then and there, the oldtime mechanism of strings and quills was uncrated, and Valenti sat down to play while some 150 people listened. After an hour of music, officialdom was satisfied, and Valenti proceeded on his concert tour. "I have never refused to do anything unusual," he says, "so long...
...school he was a laggard in mathematics and was put in a special class, where he was made to do sums in his head. The lessons stuck, and he now astounds people with his memory for figures and lightning-like calculations. Schoolmate Sid Richardson, who is five years older, spent his spare time trading cattle. Sid taught Clint so much about cattle trading that Murchison was able to run a crippled heifer into $1,500 by the time he entered Texas' Trinity University...