Word: stuck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly, Heroes Costes and Lebrix proceeded to thank M. Painleve by going down into his constituency and electioneering for him. In vain they were charged by his opponents with debasing, if not prostituting, their heroism to politics. True heroes, they stuck to their electioneering. Further, they revealed that on the last stages of their flight they were so reduced in funds that they skimped on food in order to buy gasoline, and hastened home in order to avoid begging for meals...
...Ryan monoplane, landed on plateau six miles away, climbed out, went to nearby ranch, asked astonished owner for some lunch, got it. Inhabitants of Williams heard Col. Lindbergh's plane was down, rushed to plateau in automobiles, found plane unharmed, found note in Col. Lindbergh's handwriting stuck in window: "Gone to lunch...
...Loughner, Charles Dybvig, William Chaffee. They were holders of indoor and outdoor records for model airplane flying. Representatives Clancy and McLeod introduced them to President Coolidge, who went with them to the lawn and watched them fly their toys. Two of the planes crashed in a tall poplar tree, stuck there...
...Madison was in mild excitement, half the town accusing me of undermining the sanctity of family life. I, therefore, refused to approach delicate topics in an hysterical atmosphere unsuited to their discussion, but nonetheless stuck to my subject. The meeting was an enormous success...
...ever kill one? I can't say that I did. I stuck a needle through the back of one's neck and as far as I could tell it was dead. I stuffed it and was using it for a pen rack until it began crawling around over the desk, and I finally had to glue it down...