Word: clung
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...took a long time. By 10 o'clock, neighbors clung to telephone poles and tree limbs, stood on ladders and clambered to rooftops to peer over a dense honeysuckle hedge into the yard. At noon, having dug out 3 ft. of dirt and a foot of quicklime, James stepped back with a sick sigh. A pair of undertakers, their pants legs rolled up, got down into the grave and lifted out a blue plastic bag. Inside was the fully clothed body of Bobby Greenlease. He had been shot once through the head, from behind...
Only the noisy Bevanites, few of whom work with their hands, still clung to the Marxist dogma that the state alone must own "the means of production." They were steamrollered at Margate by the trade-union mass that is the heart (and the bankroll) of British Socialism...
Soft Wadding. Jacques smiled and refused. For a moment father and son clung to each other, as if too moved to speak. Then the old professor began: "It was very important, very lovely. And I must say that the chief merit of this undertaking goes to my son Jacques. It was he who guided the Trieste." There had been no trouble at all; the Trieste had functioned perfectly. She had snuggled down on the sea bottom (where the pressure was about 500 lbs. per square inch) "as on a soft wadding." The result, said Piccard, "is what he had foreseen...
...stars and unsmiling face was Henri Eugène Navarre, a quiet but steely, cultured but tough general of the French army. He had come from Paris to take command of a war that was going badly for France and the non-Communist world-a Red nightmare that had clung to the green jungles and rice fields of Indo-China for seven years...
...until Barbacki had spent three days and nights on his ledge did the rescue party reach him. For 70 hours, with only a few ounces of honey to eat, he had clung to the ledge with frostbitten hands. Veteran Chamonix guides, who hauled Barbacki to safety, thought that Chulliat might have lived had the two men tried the descent roped together. Amateur Climber Barbacki merely said: "I guess I was lucky to stay where...