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Word: stucke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After taking 15 minutes to dress, Murphy dived into the muddy waters armed with only a flashlight, since it was dark then. He came up with the club after searching for about a quarter of an hour. Murphy said he found the club stuck upright in about a foot of mud, eight feet under the surface, and about 20 feet from the bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frogman Retrieves Lost Golf Club Thrown into Muddy Charles River | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

...there are several entries on the debit side. Too often the show sacrifices the cast's varied comedy talents to dull, sentimental numbers stuck in for change of pace. Because the tone of the revue is irrepressibly comic these interludes are rarely effective. "Nanty Puts Her Hair Up" and June Carroll's "Guess Who I Saw Today" are examples of numbers too delicate to survive their boisterous surrounding...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: New Faces of 1952 | 4/7/1953 | See Source »

...those days eastern Oregon was an area of large lakes surrounded by lush, subtropical forests. Hancock's ancient proboscidian had probably lumbered into , a prehistoric mire, got stuck there and died on his feet, his head reaching up to the level where the jawbone was uncovered ages later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Postman's Mastodon | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Heave Ho! In San Francisco, when Floyd Ford's car got stuck in a rut, he and a friend got out to push, shoved it out of the rut and over a 75-ft. cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1953 | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...Europe." The museum began collecting samples from the great periods in history: Egyptian art back to 3,000 B.C., a richly-tooled gold funeral wreath from ancient Greece, a Chinese urn from the Han dynasty, a fine green glaze beaker from the 15th century Persia. In painting, Chillman stuck to such safe and sure old masters as Fra Angelico Bellini, Rembrandt, such French impressionists as Cézanne and Renoir, and a gallery of popular Americans from John Singer Sargent to Cowboy Artists Frederic Remington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Harvest in Houston | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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