Word: clutch
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...battleships shell us with 14-inch shells and everything else. Eight of us huddle in the shelter, sweating and praying. The worst experience I've ever been through in my life. ... It goes on for hour after hour. I begin trembling. It is uncontrollable. Francis McCarthy and I clutch each other's hands for mutual comfort...
Using just the right tension, Vag overcame the wiry toughness of the French bread with an unsophisticated jerk, and settled back to enjoy the fruits of his conquest. He marvelled at the deft skill with which he had snared the bread from under the clutch of his neighbor. "Physical Ed's made me a new man," he gloated, proudly fondling the bulging biceps of his right arm. Gracefully ignoring the fork that clattered to the floor, Vag reached out for his cup of tea. The long last month wasn't so bad at that, he reflected as he sipped contentedly...
Eleanor Roosevelt bustled from the house, lugging an armful of prints to a maroon convertible; housewives always clutch the breakables on moving day. Newsmen gathered round. Mrs. Roosevelt brushed them away: "No time for interviews...
...that were to be done, the Jap had to be kept out of U.S. operations bases in the islands to the south, where he was striving with might & main to get everything into the clutch of his stubby fingers. He had finally taken the city of Cebu (which U.S. airmen promptly fired - see p. 20), had landed also on Panay...
...Cebu, fairest and wealthiest island of the lovely Visayan Sea, lay helpless before the clutch of the Jap. For days the city of Cebu, second largest in the Philippines (pop. 142,912), had been all but deserted. The two movie houses were still showing outdated U.S. films; a few customers still tapped the dwindling supply of beer and whiskey in the Vienna...