Word: staked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gottfried Benn, onetime Chief Surgeon for the German Army in the Brussels area, declared that he had been an eyewitness of the execution of Miss Cavell and had signed the certificate attesting her death. According to Dr. Benn, Nurse Cavell was blindfolded and tied by her hands to a stake. Thereafter she remained standing until "hit and instantly killed by 12 bullets...
...appeared on the face of Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held to the end of the game, beating Duryee...
...with your untrained eyes must depend on their professional honor. . . . Davey Tree Surgeons will give nothing but first aid treatment to a tree that is starving. . . . Many clients urge them to break this rule by treatment of a hopeless case. . . . They answer: 'Yes, but our reputation is at stake...
...Captain Cohn no one will ever write the true biography. Presumably untrue is the tale that he got his stake in life through pocketing by agreement 40% of all he could wheedle from the late eccentric Baron Michelham in the interest of the estranged Baroness, Aimee Geraldine, nee Bradshaw. Today Captain Cohn, a fat, unctuous personage with a great mane of blond hair, is to be seen, sleekly appareled and carrying a lady's parasol to shield his eyes, at every major race meeting in Europe. Frequently, very frequently, his horses win. His Sir Galahad distanced Epinard...
Bravest of martyrs, John Huss (c. 1373-1415) was the foremost intermediary in passing on from English Wycliffe to German Luther the torch which eventually kindled the Reformation. As such, he himself became physically a torch, burned at the stake for heresy with ecstatic words upon his lips: "In the truth of that gospel which ... I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die!" Such a spirit, rekindled in Czechoslovakia, stands to them for all that has cloven their new, secular republic away from the Holy and Apostolic and Most Catholic oppressions of the fallen House of Habsburg...