"It's tragic to think how many kids can't read, stuck in cinder-block schools with teachers who are force-feeding the basic concepts, when they could have picked up these things informally," Mr. Buckleitner said.
Tawni O'Dell's potent first novel, BACK ROADS (Viking, $24.95), features the recurring image of a rusty pipe stuck in a concrete block, the remnant of the satellite dish that 19-year-old Harley Altmyer can no longer afford, now that his mother is in jail for killing his dad.
On upper Madison Avenue around 7 p.m., about 10 buses seemed to be stuck in a vortex, blocking traffic and fishtailing forward and backward in an ungainly and unintentional ballet.
An ax was stuck in a chopping-block tree stump he pointed that out first.
Victory opened with a flurry and forced Newcastle gloveman Mark Birighitti into a few quick saves, including a potential own goal from Jason Hoffman, who got stuck in a scramble to block Ben Kantarovski's goalward drive.
This, he says, is the price he pays for creativity, and it's a bleak old place to live; years spent stuck in a decrepit housing block, mooning around a scabby flat where he's kept awake by noisy neighbours as the wheezy din of Hank Williams "coughing all night long a hundred floors above," rattles down through the floorboards.
Sometimes, I have writer's block where I'm stuck in a scene.
Paula Brady, from Shrewsbury, was stuck in a hotel in Calais with her husband, Bill, after they found the ferry terminal blocked.
It required nothing more than blocking all internet-protocol addresses outside Xinjiang at the border so people were stuck in a Xinjiang "intranet", a rather dull place.
When splitting wood with an axe, if you strike with the axe head very slightly off perpendicular, it will be less likely to get stuck in the block of wood, but will cause pieces to pop free.
