Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard run--Berman is top man here. He may run the half-mile in the spring, but has stuck by the quarter this winter and needs more competitive experience at this distance. Joe Rosen always seems to run slower in meets than in practice...
...Toronto, Bridge Expert Oswald Jacoby stuck his neck out: "Canasta is the only game that my wife and I could play . . . with some of our half-witted friends. [It] can be enjoyed by everyone, unlike bridge, where a poor player can spoil the game for others...
When the United States of Indonesia was born last month, a wave of forgive & forget sentiment swept over the archipelago. Most Dutch and Indonesian leaders recognized that their future interests ran parallel. Last week a formidable fly stuck firmly in the salve of cooperation...
Other words spring from men and events. In the 1880s members of the Irish Land League gave the silent treatment to a hated estate agent named Captain Charles Boycott. The method they used stuck, and so did boycott. A century before, France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager and finally for a portrait in barest outline...
...when the court convened after the noon recess, lawyers from the Her-Ex and the four other newspapers were arrayed alongside Prisoner Fowler. Judge Nourse, having stuck his chin way out, pulled it back fast before the Her-Ex haymaker landed. Said he solemnly to Fowler: "The record shows I adjourned the court until 2 p.m. tomorrow. The court therefore was not in session at the time you took your photograph. I feel therefore that the order I made sentencing you and finding you in contempt of court was not properly made . . . You are released from custody and purged...