Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every telegraph pole from Munich to Berlin the head of a prominent Jew must be stuck...
From the truck a greasy hubcap was unscrewed, clapped down on his head. "That's his crown!" crowed some youngster. Oily slime ran down the judge's face. His tormentors threw dirt at him which stuck to the grease...
...though his Secretary of the Treasury stuck by him on the inflation issue, President Roosevelt last week did lose the support of his Party's elder statesman on government finance and his first choice for Secretary of the Treasury. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass. He it was who wrote the 1932 platform plank pledging the Democracy to a "sound currency at all hazards." During the campaign he arose from a sick-bed to deliver a deadly attack upon Herbert Hoover's fiscal program which won him 5,000 messages of congratulation. He turned down the Treasury portfolio...
Mark Shaw, Maine farmer, had a big family, as farmers should. Not all of them stuck as close to the soil as he would have liked. Ralph went off to be an aviator, and turned out to be a good one. George was shiftless, lazy, a loud talker, always in some kind of avoidable difficulty with his crops. Olly was frail; he kept his end up at harvest, but his mind was on debating triumphs at college, a lawyer's future. Mark's second wife would have been an invalid if they could have afforded it; pain made...
...gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with those you see along any road in Long Island or Westchester or in front of your next-door garage-except that it stands there in the sand, in the midst of nothingness, in the almost exact geographical centre of the Sahara, stuck there like a pictorial infantile idea of the North Pole, the most lonely and isolated gasoline pump in the world or the universe...