Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest, the Japanese-born Issei, were reserved, puritanical people, who clung to an old country belief in hard work, personal integrity and obedience to tradition. They felt a sense of loyalty to Japan and had grave misgivings about the flipness, the new and careless attitudes of U.S.-born Nisei. Pearl Harbor had filled them with indecision. Many wanted Japan to win the war, but they did not want the U.S.-the country in which their children would go on living-to lose. ¶The Nisei had grown away from the Japanese beliefs that they had been taught as children, felt...
...fighting the Pacific war cut their slogans to fit their hopes. The most optimistic have clung to "Home alive by '45." A few have made it; more will make it before this year's end, but for most it is only a mirage. Those who stay may take their choice from among the following: "Out of the sticks in '46"; "From hell to heaven in '47" and the old standby, "Golden Gate...
Chocolate Drop, a 130-ft. reddish-brown mound, was another tough obstacle on the way to Shuri. For six days the 77th Infantry Division fought seesaw battles for the top, and finally won it. The Japs also counterattacked Conical Hill and clung to positions on the south slope, barring access to the west coast port of Yonabaru. On the east coast, Marine patrols found Naha a stinking, corpse-littered ruin...
Against these units, supported by the fire of warships, planes and artillery,, the Japanese fought skillfully. In three caves U.S. soldiers found more than 300 enemy bodies, all huddled together, but in most places the Japanese no longer clung stubbornly to a position until they died there...
...trouble had never been that the Russians considered this agreement a scrap of paper; they clung to it with a deadly, literal seriousness. Three major differences arose...