Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have got it," said a dispirited game warden last week as he stood on the banks of Rhodesia's man-made Kariba lake. Before his weary, red-rimmed eyes lay a vast tract of drowning land. Two hundred yards away a dozen monkeys clung to the rocky crown of a tiny island that was being swallowed up in the dappled waters. The monkeys' ribs showed through their shrunken skin, their liquid, pleading eyes turned desperately this way and that...
Live ones, after a 135-m.p.h. plunge into freezing water and the swift current, were few. First Officer Frank S. Hlavacek, 33, clung weakly to a crumpled wing. Passenger Robert Sullivan, 8, bobbed to the surface with his dying mother, looked vainly for his father and two sisters. Stewardess Joan Zeller, 21, floated limp and badly injured. Despite the rescuers' heroic toil, there were only eight survivors -five passengers and three crew. The others-65 in all-died in the crash...
...will be free, though we have to raise a tomb in each home." New York Herald Correspondent Stephen Bonsai, father of the new U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, visited Havana's Laurel Ditch, the Spanish execution ground, and wrote: "Clots of dark human blood, as we slipped on it, clung to our feet like glue. In the wall, a thousand ghastly bullet holes." Spain's efficient, Prussian-descended General Valeriano ("The Butcher") Weyler, the elegant Marquis of Tenerife, decreed that the noncombatants be rounded up into huge concentration camps. In Havana province alone, 50,000 prisoners starved to death...
...Speech Therapy. When Marclan was three, she was not expected to live. Somehow she clung to life until it was time to go to school, and ever since she has been determined to keep up with her peers. As a high-school senior she won an American Legion essay contest. The prize: a scholarship at Marshall. There (she will be a senior next month) she is taking eleven credit hours, five of them in speech, and plans to become a speech therapist. An average of six times a year she has to go to St. Mary's Hospital...
...embarrassed Rhodesian Athletic Association overruled DuBois and declared Muleya would be allowed to compete. Their decision was not wholehearted. Before the race, Muleya was pointedly left out when the other competitors were presented to the Governor. Then the race started. Running barefooted in the muddy going, Muleya clung to Pine's shoulder like a dark shadow. After seven laps he lengthened his stride, passed Pirie, pulled away...