Word: clingingly
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India's unwashed. Wealthy Indians cling to hoarded stocks, awaiting even greater profits...
...Navy Seabees prepared to restore the 4,000-ft. Munda airstrip, which would bring the U.S. just within fighter-plane range of Rabaul. Eyes turned to Vila, Munda's supplementary airstrip 17 miles away, huddled against the great cone of Kolombangara. That the Japs were determined to cling to Vila was evident when they once more took the impossible chance and sent down four ships with reinforcements. Intercepting the convoy at mid night in the Vella Gulf, the U.S. Navy, already operating north of Kolombangara, sank a cruiser, two destroyers and probably the remaining destroyer...
Apparently determined to cling to New Georgia as long as he could, the Jap had resorted to sea strength as his air force weakened. He revived the "Tokyo Express." But the U.S. Navy's powerful guns had felt out the Jap ships in the darkness, sunk between 17 and 23, crippled more. Bombers, too, lashed at Jap shipping. Superior force, which had been brought to bear in Tunisia and Sicily, was winning in the Pacific as well...
...Sunday, the men from Scott's coal hollow held a meeting. Stiff in their Sunday clothes, they flocked to Dallas Hall, paused for a brief beer, stood bareheaded in the bare room to hear their leaders. Outside a brisk wind whipped powdery snow around the houses that cling drunkenly to the hillsides...
...Washington few die and none resign, if they can possibly avoid it. "Going Washington" is a disease as definite as "going Hollywood." Czars who have been superseded or are being circumvented cling on desperately, loth to give up their places on the fringe of the spotlight...