Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 Czars who have been superseded or are being circumvented cling on desperately, loth to give up their places on the fringe of the spotlight...
There was the old Petty girl fluttering on another wall, above the liquor-stained armchair; the one he had helped Bob carry over from Matthews when the moved out of the Yard. "Two years isn't much time," Vag thought. He felt the cigarette cling to his dry lips as he shuffled over to the fireplace. The bricks were cold and black. Vag shivered as he remembered all the week-hour bull sessions its fires had warned, and the way they used to talk about a far-away war with a bottle of scotch on the floor between them...
First the Dorniers, then dive-bombers roar down for the kill, and Captain Kinross' ship goes down with more than half her crew. Then, while the Captain and a few sailors, covered with fuel oil and sprayed with machine-gun bullets, cling precariously to a raft in the scummy water, the camera flashes back to tell the whole story of the ship...