Word: clung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auction rooms in Bond Street. Cherished by four generations of the House of Bourbon, fought over by the three ghostly old sisters of the late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants which the city of Paris presented to Queen Marie Antoinette of France and which adorned her throat...
Through the bare corridors of the House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...
...first half mile and then dropped slowly back. Lowell was rowing 33 and Adams 32 as they swung easily down the course. Leverett, rowing unbelievably poorly, was out of the race from the start, while Dunster staged a surprise by putting up a game fight as they clung to the heels of the Gold Coast boys...
...fire spread so fast that few stories of its origin jibed. But several witnesses clung to their story of the port rear engine racing and spouting sparks. These might have ignited hydrogen valved out during the descent. Airships usually valve gas in landing. The vents are on top and the gas is so light that it usually rises straight up. The Hindenburg was slightly nose down at the instant of the fire and still moving fairly fast. Conceivably a freak breeze might have combined with the slipstream to waft a whiff of gas into engine sparks...
...tree in which a live raccoon was tied high and safe. First to reach the tree was a 4-year-old redbone coon hound named Rudd. The race was over but Rudd did not know it. Up the slightly slanting tree trunk he clambered some 18 ft., clung there until a ladder intended for the coon was used to retrieve him (see cut). Amazed coon-hunters, who had often seen their dogs scramble a few feet up a tree and somersault back, swore they had never seen anything like that climbing coon dog Rudd...