Word: clawful
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...with slumped and sleeping drunken bums.* Soaks of all descriptions-a Harvard man, a British infantry captain, a Boer War correspondent, a Negro gambler, an unbadged police lieutenant, a disillusioned anarchist-they had been reduced by rotgut to creatures of one baggy shape. What kept them hanging by a claw to life was the kindness of the drunken-bum saloonkeeper (finely played by Dudley Digges), and their pipe dreams, their mumbling that tomorrow would turn up a winning card or bring forth a better...
...operators sit at ease, watching the airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...
...runner-up was the pre-primary favorite, earnest Dr. Homer Price Rainey, ousted president of the University of Texas.* After a discreet radio campaign that degenerated into fang and claw stumping, 50-year-old Baptist Dr. Rainey had clapped a Stetson on his bald head and begun calling names in the best southwestern tradition. He had done very well for a professor suspected by Texans of having read John Dos Passos' U.S.A. But, even with the silent support of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and Texas' more than 50,000 voting Negroes, Homer Rainey would have...
...actor-playwright (Brian Aherne) who is ordered by the Nazi Minister of Culture to write a collaborationist drama. He writes one, with parts for his current and ex-wives and a surprise finale that will explode in the Nazis' faces. During an extensive rehearsal period the three ladies claw one another while Roublard gaily courts them all. The Minister of Culture's interest in one of them (Arlene Francis) precipitates a crisis...
Monkey Business. In Portland, Ore., several monkeys in the zoo found some walnuts, discovered that the natural stain in the husks made a fine cosmetic, painted themselves gaudy greens and golds. In New Orleans, a pet monkey, egged on by two small boys, climbed into an "iron claw" slot machine, garnered $60 worth of clocks, fishing reels, and other knickknacks...