Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...menfolk to work on the broken dikes. Children were let out of school to help collect money and supplies. Queen Juliana contributed a bundle of her own and her children's clothes and set out on a tour of the flooded areas. At one point her car got stuck in the mud. "Come on," called the Queen, suiting the action to the word, "let's get out and push." Even 72-year-old Princess Wilhelmina took to the road for two days to lend what help she could...
...Highest Aim. But as an educator, President Conant never stuck to any particular bailiwick. He wandered into every field-from the teaching of science and the education of dentists to the training of teachers. Sometimes he wandered into fields that seemed far from Harvard Yard...
...icily courteous meeting with the young Marquess and his mates, Herr Lieberkuehn stuck by the law: the pink coats, hounds & horses must go. That night the Life Guards bundled up a supply of fireworks, threw in a few Very pistol flares to boot, and descended in the dark on Herr Lieberkuehn's house. It was a spectacular show, though it scared the maid half to death: she thought the Russians had finally crossed over from the East-West border only 20 miles away. Unfortunately, Herr and Frau Lieberkuehn were away at the movies, so the lads had to come...
Nick Bunt and the angry council asked the Bishop of Truro to remove Densham. Under the Church of England's constitution; however, the bishop was powerless, for the rector had committed no crime, and he was conducting the services acceptably. Stuck with their rector, the flock retaliated by refusing to go to church. Some went to other Anglican churches; others drifted off to Warleggon's Methodist chapel. After 1935, not a soul among Warleggon's parishioners entered the church for Sunday services again...
...Well, Keeler knew where one of the men lived. That's Sonny Campbell. [So] one morning we stuck him up, and we wanted to know where the furs were. [But] the man didn't know." Campbell, it turned out, had already tipped off the Jersey waterfront mob under "Charlie the Jew" Yanowski (since ice-picked to death), and Charlie had highjacked the furs from the original highjackers. Despite their prior claim, Smith & Co. formally agreed to let the Jersey mob keep the boodle. Meanwhile, Campbell's pals, unaware that he had double-crossed them...