Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into its tanks went sea creatures: sharks, channel bass, tropical lungfish, giant morays, sea turtles, penguins, alligators, crabs. There were monstrous fish, fierce and implacable; sullen, unfriendly fish; fish that clung like parasites to other fish, twisting their sinuous tails in the green water, staring at the shadowy faces beyond the glass. The city gave them 300,000 gallons of water a day-clean salt water from the sea, harbor water, fresh water from the upstate mountain streams...
Jacobs succeeded in signing up Joe Louis. Whereupon Roxborough, Black & Blackburn, assisted by the Hearst press, began a promotional buildup. Because they knew whites (especially those who buy fight tickets) like Negro fighters virtuous, and remembering the stigma that still clung to colored fighters as a result of Jack Johnson's flamboyant wenching when he was world's heavyweight champion (1908-15), Louis' brain trust decided that their boy was going to be pure...
Carey knew it as well as anyone. The left-wingers had been his willing workers almost from the time he started organizing his union in 1934. They had helped him build up a 250,000 membership, but they had also stepped into the key spots and clung to them...
Express Trains. Men who watched were blinded by what they saw. They clung to stanchions, to each other, waiting for sight to return, for the earth where they stood to still itself. And as they wove drunkenly about, they heard the deadly tumult of twelve tons of steel hurtling away, whistling and rattling like more express trains than any man had ever heard together...
...above all the shift turned the heat on besieged, already broiling-hot Tobruch. For two months the British had clung to this inhospitable town because it lay athwart the Axis lines leading to Egypt. All week long Axis dive-bombers flying the easy 250-mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would...