Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, professor emeritus at Tulane, left the manuscript of this translation unrevised when he died ten years ago at 84. His friend, Walter Miller, now 80 and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, revised and finished it. An odor of honorable mustiness, of philology and old German texts, clung round the generation of U.S. classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published without scholarly notes...
Enclosed on three sides in the Vosges mountains by French and Americans under U.S. Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, an estimated force of 40,000 Germans was in serious danger of complete envelopment. Their backs were to the Rhine. There the Germans adeptly clung to the few bridges over which they hoped to withdraw men and machines...
...days, Marshal Govorov's army group had killed 30,000 Germans, captured 15,000 more. When Govorov seized Ainazi, on the Latvian coast, the Germans lost their only rail-served port north of Riga. For two months they had stubbornly clung to an escape corridor at the bottom of the gulf-yet, when the Russians captured the inland rail town of Cesis, they found it had been reinforced by Elite Guard and aviation cadet units from Germany...
...four months the Browns had clung stubbornly to the League lead, despite all predictions of an inevitable slump. On their final Eastern swing, they got by the Yankees and Red Sox all right. Then they hit the skids. In Washington, they made the tactical mistake of taunting the tail-ending Senators. The jeers stung the Senators to life and they won three of the four games. On the way home, the Browns lost four out of six. Back home, they quickly lost another three out of four to the Tigers...
...risen from $31 billion to more than $52 billion; 2) the market value of listed bonds has soared from $58 billion to $102 billion. The biggest advance among bonds has been scored by the second-grade rails, thus adding substantially to the earnings of those banks which stubbornly clung to them when prices were lower...