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...Scripps-Howard newspapers (26) clung to Hoover, though he frowned upon some of their policies and ignored their demand to oust Dr. Work...
...windows of great shops buckled and burst, streets were strewn with clothing store dummies, some in fetching negligee. Citizens and policemen clung to lamp posts, or flung themselves flat and clung to gutters. Finally even the elite U. S. patrons of smart hotels along the Thames Embankment were made to choke and gasp with streaming eyes, as smoke and soot blew down the chimneys of their bedrooms' open hearths...
Only the temporary iron tower for pouring cement remained standing, swaying and lashing wildly, while a single workman clung to the topmost pinnacle, scared but safe. A passing trolley car was derailed by falling chunks, and passengers tumbled out higgelty piggelty?some gravely cut and wounded. Meanwhile, shrieks & groans ascended from the fallen building's debris...
Twice Maurice Bokanowski had cheated Death. During the War he served as a lieutenant, received a thought-to-be mortal wound, recovered. Later, in 1916 while he was crossing the Mediterranean on the Provence, she was torpedoed. For ten hours he clung to a bit of wreckage. Finally he was rescued by a lifeboat...
...field, Long Island. They dragged him close to a plane. He tried to resist, digging his heels into the earth. His big brother climbed into the plane's cockpit to show that the monster would not bite. They lifted Julius into the machine. Trembling with mute terror he clung to his mother, who also trembled while they put a stout strap about the boy's waist and fastened it securely to the plane seat. They put double straps about his arms. He tried to scream. He strained at his fastenings, but could only force his hands slightly upward...