Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roaring Lions. At his usual corner table in the Carroll Arms Hotel, during the luncheon recess, McCarthy gulped down a Manhattan, a slice of lamb and coffee. His suit coat was off, his shirt clung to him, soaked through. The going had been hot & heavy, and there was more, much more, to come...
...garrison at Dienbienphu clung at week's end to six fire-whipped strong points by the Nam Yourn River. The tricolor still flapped jauntily above the French command post. But the 12,000 worn-out Frenchmen. Vietnamese. North Africans and Foreign Legionnaires had been squeezed into one-third of their original perimeter, and they were short of ammunition, supplies and fresh reinforcements. The men were so tired that their performance was losing effect. One night last week the Communists quickly isolated and overran a Foreign Legion outpost in the airstrip sector, and the French could not get it back...
Arriving in Geneva, Dulles set his jaw grimly, and did his best to re-establish an air of Western determination. He dismissed talk of partitioning Indo-China, a notion to which the British have clung. "The only partition I would favor," said Dulles, "would be to set apart a place way up north, about the size of this room, and lock up all the Communists there...
...Navy clung to its slim lead in the second half despite an alert Crimson defense that successfully bottled up Lange and Clune. Guards Doral Sandlin and Larry Wigle7 took up the slack for the visitors with a combination of set shots and free throws...
...they start off with a genuinely promising first act. After that, things tend to halt at times, and at others to go downhill. The play's serious side, too solemn for a suspense yarn, is too superficial for anything else. To keep really alive, the play should have clung like a leech to its corpse...