Word: unstuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reporting the case, Kelsey and Barron made an acknowledgment unique in medical journals: "We should like to record our appreciation to our patient for his readiness to cooperate in the experiment, which might, almost too literally, have come unstuck...
...says-which is fascinating enough-but the fact that he can say anything at all before the implacable eye of the television camera. "Why, I couldn't say a word up there with those earphones and all," marvels one distinguished Columbia scholar. "I'd come completely unstuck...
...spoke with bluntness rare towards allies. The U.S., he said, does not believe that "in any circumstances this [Anglo-French] ultimatum would be justifiable or ... consistent with the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter." In the debate that followed, the U.N.'s familiar two-sided world came unstuck. Sobolev eagerly announced that "the Soviet delegation is prepared to vote in favor of the U.S. draft resolution . . ." When the vote came, Britain and France, the two historic allies of the U.S.. vetoed the U.S. proposal. It was Britain's first veto...
Problem Drinker. In San Francisco, after a doctor got her tongue unstuck from a pop bottle, nine-year-old Kathleen Owens asked for the bottle, explained: "It isn't empty and I'm still thirsty...
...Unstuck. Far Eastern atmospherics were punishing to Western instruments-and instrumentalists. The glued parts of viols and woodwinds regularly came unstuck; humidity snapped the strings of three violas during Beethoven's "Eroica" in Ceylon. The heat could untune a piano half a tone in two hours and rot a dress suit in a matter of days. In Bangkok, with a temperature of 105° onstage and no fans, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy came backstage to insist that the men take off their white jackets. After that they often played in shirtsleeves, delicately abandoning suspenders in favor of belts...