Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cricket field has two wickets placed 22 yards apart in the center of the playing area. The wickets consist of three "stumps" stuck into the ground with two "bails," small wooden pieces, resting over the tops of the stumps. A wicket is "lost" when a batsman lets a ball thrown by the "bowler," go by him and hit one of the stumps, thus knocking off one or both bails...
...trying a man more than once for the same crime. But, as any well-educated lawyer knows, a long procession of Supreme Court decisions holds that separate trial by federal and state courts for the same crime is not considered to be double jeopardy. Last week the Supreme Court stuck by precedent in two cases involving federal and state trials-surprising the schoolboys and drawing a stinging dissent from a minority of three of the court's own members...
Behind this sordid record lies the soul of a romantic. On his left arm Marks wears a tattooed double heart inscribed "Love, Nellie." On his right is an eight-inch snake coiled about a dagger stuck through the top of a skull and bearing Marks's motto, which happens to be "Death Before Dishonor...
Against the background of Mexico during the anti-clerical campaign of the 1930's, the last priest in a province fights his drunkenness and cowardice, all the time facing the choice between escape to freedom and staying on to minister to the peasants, who have stuck to their primitive Catholicism through years of socialist poverty. Twice he has a chance to escape: the first time he answers the call of a dying woman, and later he returns from across the border to the aid of a dying man, only to find that he has been trapped by the police...
...smitten that he followed Lenore whenever she went out with another boy, sat behind them in a movie or trailed their car. When she starred in a high-school play that involved kissing a boy, he insisted that there be no kiss at rehearsals, stuck around to make sure. "Sometimes I wondered if he was right for me," says Lenore, "but gradually I understood. He really cared...