Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grimly, while their toll of dead and wounded mounted, they dug in and clung to the ridgeside. The wounded were moved into a little ravine for protection, but Japanese shells reached in to kill them on their litters. Their officers ordered a retreat. Some of the battalion got through the fire to safety...
...right, hit the south flank from Saarbrikken to Haguenau. Thus assaulted on three sides, the German First and Seventh Armies began a scramble to get across the Rhine. Allied tactical airplanes swarmed down on the crowded roads and resumed their familiar, pleasant pastime of smashing enemy transport. Some Germans clung to Siegfried Line defenses on the south flank; the longer they fought there, the more they were menaced from the rear...
...Ninth. The exact size and dispositions of the Ninth Army are secret, but it is the freshest, keenest U.S. army in the west. It was called on for almost no help against Rundstedt, and clung to its Roer positions while the First and Third Armies were hammering the bulge flat...
...been a no man's land for days, battered by naval, air and artillery bombardment, before it fell. Even from there, the road to Baguio would be uphill all the way. The Japs had big guns emplaced. Though some of these were knocked out, the enemy clung stubbornly to pillboxes and other fixed defenses. Most of the 1,017 Americans announced as killed in the first three weeks of the campaign had died in this sector, where the 43rd Division (Major General Leonard F. Wing) and the 158th Regimental Combat Team (Brigadier General Hanford MacNider) were fighting...
Some evenings and on Sundays, he took walks with his landlady, who clung snugly to his arm. Otherwise he seemed to have no friends. Storekeepers found him quick-tempered, particularly when they had no cigarets for him. But even the most suspicious of his neighbors did not connect Mrs. Mayer's lodger with many unexplained neighborhood happenings. Sometimes, for hours, strangers sat in parked cars with motors running, only to drive away, return again. At night other strangers prowled the block...