Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan. 31--Beleaguered French insurgents, ranks thinned by the desertion of some territorial troops, clung grimly to their barricades in the streets of Algiers tonight. Around them was a ring of tough French army soldiers. Firm army action brought the first cracks in the position of the right-wing dissidents who have been defying the government of President Charles de Gaulle a week...
Evil Is Inefficient. A fulltime novelist from then on, Shute clung to his methodical engineering habits. From 9:30 a.m. to noon, he typed at his manuscript, seated at a secondhand rolltop desk that his father had given him. A year was par for a novel. As critics and readers quickly learned, his characters behaved with a realistic mixture of human strength and frailty. Storyteller Shute was peculiarly immune to the lilt and color of prose, but he fashioned his sentences with pane-of-glass clarity...
...Vietnamese refugees who fled from the French into Thailand in 1946 made friends easily enough with local Thai villagers, but they quickly wore out their welcome with the government in Bangkok. Clustered along the northeastern frontier, which borders on Laos, in tight little communities of their own, the refugees clung fiercely to their own language, built their houses on the ground instead of on stilts as is the Thai custom, and kept their ears glued to the voice from home-Hanoi radio, with its tireless Communist propaganda. Soon Ho Chi Minh's agents from North Viet Nam organized...
...constable's finest hour, as British Freelance Writer Collier makes clear in his meticulous chronicle of a Saturday night during London's blitz, was only one of many. Despite such selfless cockney courage, when the all-clear -blew, 1,436 Londoners were dead; another 1,800 clung to life in hospitals. Nearly 800 tons of high explosives and incendiaries dropped by 505 Luftwaffe bombers had tindered 2,200 fires, gutted 11,000 homes, chocked 8,000 streets from West Ham to Hammersmith with rubble...