Word: clawing
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...British fingers which have been trying to claw into the western flank of Burma slipped a little...
...guttural, drill-sharp barrack routine of the German Imperial Army. Then came the four grey years of World War I. After that Germany was a shambles of street fighting, depression, inflation. For flat-nosed, flabby-faced Theodor Eicke, the world was horrible; the only meaning in it was to claw his way over the others and reach the top of the muck heap...
Speaker Sam Rayburn's speech in Sulphur Springs, Tex. was billed as a unity rally. But everybody knew that the rally was Sam Rayburn's way of hitting back at the New Deal-hating Dallas Morning News. The News has been tooth-&-claw against the 40-hour week, ignoring the fact that U.S. workers in seven key defense industries work on an average of 48.2 hours. One day the News attacked Sam Rayburn: "Let the Speaker of the House each day place on the wall behind his chair, where Old Glory's furls are draped, a fresh...
What made San Francisco officials claw...
...whether reports like these were true, as they might be, or just part of the war of nerves, the British had still to consider seriously the possibility that the Germans, in developing the giant southern claw of the Suez pincer (see map, p. 29), might attack Egypt not along the coastal road but on a front deep enough to get away from naval bombardment and wide enough to flow right around islands of British resistance...