Now there was somebody he detested at the ice-cream factory, somebody he called Suck-stick Louie.
Danny Brennan, of Syracuse, the 2008 N.C.A.A. champions, has said that the pinch clamp was his best move: "I try and suck my stick down low and beat his clamp.
The report said fellow investigators had witnessed Mr. Crisafi on duty sucking on stick lozenges of Actiq, a prescription pain-relieving narcotic.
William Butler Yeats had strong opinions about the poets of the First World War: Rupert Brooke, he said, was "the handsomest young man in England"; Wilfred Owen's stuff was "all blood, dirt & sucked sugar stick".
Later on he would famously refuse to include Owen's verse in his edition of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), dismissing it as "all blood and dirt and sucked sugar-stick".
But some residents of the Charnwood House care home, a few miles from the centre of England, slipped off their shoes for a paddle the other day before wiggling their toes in some sand, passing a beach ball around, and sucking on sticks of rock – all without leaving their armchairs in the communal lounge.
When it came to love, I sucked at sticking up for myself.
Teens of my generation went after hard drugs and sketchy things that will probably kill us one day, but teens now are innocently sucking on sticks that are actively designed to stop you smoking and good for them.
Teens of my generation went after hard drugs and sketchy things that will probably kill us one day, but teens now are innocently sucking on sticks that are actively designed to stop you from smoking and good for them.
Suck it up, stick it in the disc, that is and just go with it.
