Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke (see p. 22). The world had expected him to speak for peace. He did so. But the Duce who had thundered at 20,000 Blackshirts at the cornerstoning of a new town outside Rome, who had stuck out his jaw and sounded off about almost every incident in Europe for 20 years- II Duce now spoke to 130 Fascist functionaries in a provincial capital, and limited himself to 600 words, 100 of which complained about attacks upon himself. The world lost interest; the pain in Warsaw seemed more severe than the heartaches of even the Duce...
World War II may make Il Duce's everlasting reputation as a statesman. Few statesmen have ever been caught in such a hole. If he stuck his head out in one direction, it would be chopped off by Britain and France-on paper at least, their Mediterranean fleets could blow his to bits and their armies might overrun northern Italy. If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with. And so, while the Italian press explained that Italy would remain neutral indefinitely, Mussolini...
...bill at the University is routine stuff, the kind that any movie-goer has seen time and time again. A new idea has been stuck in here and there to cover over the thread-worn patterns, but it's a poor job of camouflaging two pictures that are nothing more than a waste of time...
Inspection confirmed her commander's theory of how the Squalus was flooded. One of her two air-intake valves tested at Portsmouth closed in good order. But the other stuck, closed only after repeated efforts, indicating how death had flooded the Squalus...
...terrain favorable to it and unfavorable to the enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except for one spot on his back where a leaf stuck, and that is where Hagen's spear...