Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take It With You (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC) is a radio serial based on the PulitzerPrizewinning (1936) comedy by George Kaufman and Moss Hart. The opening show clung tenaciously to the original playscript in putting the zany Sycamore family through its paces: Penny, writing plays in the parlor; Paul, detonating explosives in the basement; Grandpa, exhibiting snakes in the living room. Cinemactor Walter Brennan plays the philosophizing Grandpa Vanderhof, and is described with deadly accuracy as "a wonderful, scheming, lovable old pixie...
Starting with a furious 52 at the Larz Anderson Bridge, the Journalists' shell kept up a steady 15 under the Weeks footbridge, while the 'Poonsters clung tenaciously to a six length lead. The "humorists" stayed ahead right up to the Western Avenue finish line, at which point the CRIMSON upped the beat to 64 and swept past to win by 23 lengths over the abbreviated two-mile course in the time...
...that turned out to be the 19th's good luck. The Chinese charge faltered. Then an enemy burp gun chattered. Mitchell Red Cloud was knocked flat, badly wounded. He pulled himself weakly erect, got one arm around a tree, clung there and went on firing. Then he fell again-dead. But Red Cloud's last stand had given the 19th the time it needed; the company fought its way to safety with its wounded...
...fight for "Tombstone Hill," rising 1,200 feet from a valley on the central front, was typical. A North Korean rearguard clung to its one-man pillboxes studding Tombstone's flank. The fortifications were foxholes, each roofed over by a three-foot layer of logs, stones and earth. Each man inside had plenty of ammo and a two days' bag of rice. U.S. Marine Corsairs blasted Tombstone with rockets, seared it with napalm. Shell bursts enveloped it. G.I.s crawled up, peppering the enemy's pillboxes with small-arms fire. Those who survived held off the U.N. attack...
...C.I.O., A.F.L., the railway and machinist unions) to the offices of Mobilizer Charles Wilson and Stabilizer Eric Johnston, to the White House, to Blair House and back again. Labor still demanded representation on the Administration's top policymaking level. That it would undoubtedly get. But labor also still clung stubbornly to another point on which its three delegates had been outvoted on the stabilization board...