Word: clung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...
...soon as Father Theophilus began the long series of prayers and commands to the devils to depart, "with lightning speed the possessed dislodged herself from the bed and the hands of protectors, and her body, carried through the air, landed high above the door of the room and clung to the wall with catlike grips." It was necessary to pull her down by force...
...Administrator's wife were lashed in a tree. When the hurricane had made its first passover everything but one of the boats had been swept away. Because the survivors knew the torrent of wind and water would soon be back, from the opposite direction, they abandoned the boat, clung to a heap of coral crags. Somehow they lived through the second onslaught. In even more miraculous manner so did Terangi and the more important part of his tree's crew. The grateful Administrator's wife helped him on to his interrupted escape, then fished untiringly until...
...asked to have the world supply of protoactinium back for a while so that he could make more photographs. He took it into a darkroom illuminated only by the red glow of a photographic lantern, arranged his microscope and camera. In shaping the tungsten thread to which the protoactinium clung, he was a little too rough. The delicate element crumbled to invisible dust...
Less than 10% of all new car sales are "clean sales" for cash or installment rates. The rest are for old cars plus. Advancing the automotive year boosted new car sales, but used-car buyers have apparently clung to their habit of waiting until spring to purchase. Thus used cars have piled up steadily in the hands of dealers, are now 25% to 35% above normal. And spring is still two months away. While the threat of dealer bankruptcy is no greater than usual, there is so much cash tied up in used-car inventories that dealers' ability...