Word: stubbing
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Pete Gray's right arm is cut off close to the shoulder. He plays with sleight-of-hand artistry. In fielding a ball, he lets it hit his glove, flips it into the air, tucks the glove under the stub of his arm, plucks the ball from the air, and throws it-all in one continuous, rabbit-quick motion...
...supreme moment came in Parliament's gilt-crested Royal Gallery last fortnight, when King addressed members of the Houses of Lords and Commons. He had worked and reworked his speech with the little pencil stub he habitually uses. The address was, for him, an unusually succinct statement of his view that each Dominion must be free to go its own way within a loose Commonwealth framework. But it was no orator's triumph; Mackenzie King's drone had its usual soporific effect on his audience...
...folksy, voluminous Cape Cod-born Cape Cod novelist; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Apple-cheeked son and grandson of sea captains, between his first novel (Cap'n Eri, 1904) and his last (The Bradshaws of Harniss, 1943), he usually summered on the Cape, wintered elsewhere, stub-penciled more than a book a year...
...Saturday the old man did what he had done for 42 years. In his book-littered office in the Winnipeg Free Press, slowly, with a stub pencil, he wrote the first draft of an editorial. After luncheon he picked up his black, battered old leather bag, stuffed it full of papers and documents, went home for a quiet weekend of reading. On Sunday, Editor John Wesley Dafoe, a great Canadian, was dead...
...this and other odd reasons (wet leaves on rails causing driving wheels to skid, burned-out signal lights, removing stub born drunks from trains, and stalled automobiles from grade crossing), 3,278 out of 21,646 passenger trains were late during the month...