Word: clung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet-Mongol force, he cabled, had fought its way last month across the Khalka and occupied a series of commanding heights from which it raked the Japanese lines with machine-gun fire. Last week three days of continuous Japanese attacks succeeded in dislodging the Mongol flanks, but the centre clung to its positions. Despite rains that turned the dusty plain into a quagmire, both sides dragged up heavy artillery. Japanese reinforcements were brought up from the rail head at Halunarshan while prisoners were sent north to Hailar on the old Chinese Eastern Railway. A "suicide corps" formed, to drive...
After hearing the old woman's story, Dr. Israel guessed that what probably happened was this: After the ovum was fertilized, instead of traveling normally down the fallopian tube, it traveled upward, broke out into the abdominal cavity, caught and clung to the outside of the womb, received enough nourishment there to develop normally. But since it was outside the womb, the labor contractions could not expel it, and it died...
...first jump, held its breath as they reached the third, known as the Union Memorial Fence.* After that dreaded obstacle was surmounted without mishap, a roar thundered through the lush valley. Blockade was in the lead, Coq Bruyere far behind. Fencing perfectly and lightning fast on the flat, Blockade clung to his lead. Not until the 18th jump did Coq Bruyere challenge. They took the last fence neck & neck. Then, in as exciting a stretch finish as is seen in many a six-furlong sprint on the flat, Blockade, with Farm Boy John Colwill up, just nosed out his rival...
...game that was the sloppiest seen on the New York floor this year, the Lions clung to third place in the League standings. The Blue and White had the fray their own way after the first five minutes, and Wes Fesler's men were never able to able to hold them...
Driven from Peiping by the invading army, the universities have clung together and established themselves practically intact in Kunming, 2000 miles south and in the inland of China. There living as they can, students and professors many of whom have walked all the way from Peiping, are attempting to maintain a center of Chinese learning in open air classes...