Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then notoriety brought to the emporium a tough customer with a pistol. When he had departed taking considerable cash with him, the proprietor called the police, bawled to a large crowd which had collected: "We been stuck...
...Once near midnight a half drunken man rolled into my car ... yelled at me and told me to drive him to Itabashi. . . . When I tried to receive my fee, he suddenly stuck a big knife (deba-bocho) before my eyes...
William Courtland Robinson has stuck closer to his home town. For ten years, in fact, he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Delhi. Last week he accepted, a position which will take him away from Delhi, to Philadelphia. A conservative theologian, he was made Editor of The Presbyterian (weekly), succeeding Dr. Samuel G. Craig who was ousted (TIME...
...beginning I was betrayed. My partner sold me out and left me to carry this awful load. I have received scurrilous letters from you stockholders, and some of the accusations which have been made against me have caused me to cry like a baby. After I was betrayed I stuck only because I felt that most of you people had bought stock because it was my project. I got nothing out of it. I have lost a larger personal fortune in sticking with you. I have nothing besides my salary, and that is nothing to what I could make...
With infinite caution he now rested his left arm against the poor box, and, bending down as though in profound prayer introduced the gum-tipped bone through the slot. A coin stuck to the gum. Soon it was dextrously transferred to a greasy vest pocket. Then another coin, another another-while vast St. Peter's rang with the glorious music of the Church Militant...