Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manchuria outnumbered Nationalist forces clung to a few encircled cities, including Changchun and Mukden; Ying-pan, an approach to the strategic Fushun coal center, was besieged. The rest of Manchuria was in Communist hands. Nationalist losses had been heavy...
Goals in the second and fourth periods proved margin enough as Poley Guyda's Freshman soccer team clung to its undefeated record with a 2 to 1 win over New Bedford High School yesterday at the Business School Field. After the game the Yardlings elected James Gabler 151 of Matthews Hall and Jamaica, N.Y. as captain for the 1947 season...
...Britain," said one committeeman, "is disintegrating in the greatest order ever displayed, and France is recovering in the greatest chaos imaginable." The key to Britain's recovery was production of coal, and in that effort Britain had fallen flat. Miners, in fear of mechanization, clung to old methods, persisted in working the short week because more than half their extra day's pay would have to go to the Government in taxes...
...quieted down; birds were rarely set free nowadays -for one thing, they served as food, and for another, the symbolism of freedom involved was frowned upon. The Kremlin chimes no longer played Glory to our God in Zion; instead they played the Soviet Anthem. But the people still clung to their saints, with whom Moscow's new masters have, of late, tried to make an uneasy peace...
...piers. Down the coast at Sarasota, merchants glumly watched the summer vacationists pack their bags and leave. The beach hot-dog stands were deserted at Indian Rocks and Pass-a-Grille; many beach cottages were empty. Under the hot summer sun, the stench of rotting fish seeped into houses, clung to clothes. The strange phenomenon which Floridians called the "Red Tide" had come back to the Gulf Coast...