Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumania saw one ray of hope: perhaps the victors would not carve Rumania right off the map if doing so meant rewarding Hungary and Bulgaria. But professional Rumanians could no longer be sure that the patient peasantry would remember the lessons their betters had long sought to drive home: cling to your king and fear the Red Russians like the plague...
...that little carried much punch.* Last week he issued a pallid message calling upon German youth to maintain an "unshakable belief in victory." In his last public speech, to party leaders early last month, he urged his people to rise above the shifting tide of battle, to cling to "the faith that tells us that this war will end in a mighty German victory if only our will remains unwavering." For the man who once delivered victories by the carload, to talk of "belief" or "faith" in victory must have been a sorry comedown...
Domestic crisis has forced into the background the nettlesome question of foreign policy. But the outcome of Argentina's domestic struggle would certainly affect her relations abroad. Until the extreme nationalists were overthrown or compelled to back down, she would cling to neutrality, continued relations with Germany, and hemispheric isolation...
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...