Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finals the greenskeeper, committeemen, stewards and various other people who pretended to be, and indeed may have been, officials of the St. Louis Country Club, stuck their heads out of doors and shook them emphatically. For the third day rain was falling. Ducks and drakes was the only game you could play on that course. Next day, though cloudy, was better. The sun and the gallery came doubtfully out. At the end of the morning round Miss Collett was four up. She played the first ten holes in the afternoon in even fours. On the tenth green, when that last...
...other, is schooled in rigor. Forced to travel about the world, enduring all sorts of discomforts in the interests of Empire, David Windsor, Prince of Wales, was not overcome by the fact that the train which was to have taken him last week from Chile to Buenos Aires stuck in a snowdrift on the Andes Mountains and had to turn back to Los Andes. Nor was he more than slightly startled when, as he strolled the streets of that town, bored by the oppressive company of his persona] detective, he saw a rumdum reel out of a saloon, strike...
...planes, to see Dog-Driver E-took-a-shoo, a friend, bringing him back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch...
...Anthracite," said Mr. Hammond, "has always been a fetish in New England until the last year or two." "Too long," said Governor Fuller, "our section of the country has stuck to anthracite while other sections never use it." "Anthracite" said Mr. Hammond, "is a luxury and not to be indulged in at too great a cost. We have plenty of substitutes" ?meaning bituminous (soft) coal, coke, fuel-oil. That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded...
Smiling quizzically, speaking softly, deprecating demonstration, Air Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth, sole American to accompany Explorer Amundsen of Norway on his dash from Spitsbergen to the North Pole (TIME, June 1 et seq.), trod again his home shores last week. His footnotes to the story of the flight that stuck in icy hummocks 157 miles from the goal...