Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside of Plain Dealing, La., little dun dogs peered through slack, seamy, deep-set eyes, sniffed eagerly. Five hundred and two armed men followed. They shook trees, stuck sticks up hollow logs- suddenly licked parched lips as the hounds began to whimper. They were looking for Judge Powell, Negro. Fool, he had slain Sheriff Dooley. Now they had found him. He whimpered as the hounds leapt about him, yelped. He cowered in the cotton field. Guns spat. He shrieked, groaned, died. Little dun dogs closed in, sniffed eagerly. At Wytheville, Va., last week gentry stormed the county jail; shot Raymond...
...first set, the only set she won. The court was like an oven, but Helen Wills was cool. She has never, since the days when she wore pigtails, appeared anything else. Mrs. Mallory looked as if she had been in swimming with all her clothes on. Her shirt stuck to her back like a wet towel; her eyes glared out of her tawny face; the cords stood out along her arms. Helen Wills took the lead, 8-6. Mrs Mallory showed why she is called the "lionhearted" by winning the next two sets 6-4, 6-2; she shook hands...
Hurry! The Most Reverend José Mora y del Rio, Archbishop of Mexico, met the challenge of July 31 in the manner prescribed for the captain of a sinking ship- stuck to his cathedral...
There naval officials descended into the gruesome, barnacled grotto of the dead, and as they fumbled through the rusty, sea-fouled compartments, scenes of the death struggles were revealed. Men had stuck to their posts. Inside the gash where the Rome had bitten, pinned between the bent steel plates and the engineroom bulkhead, was the body of a seaman. One arm was stretched out in an effort to grasp the lever which would have closed an emergency valve and perhaps have saved the lives of some of his fellows...
...better or worse, the 69th Congress stuck at its mutton as the month simmered away...