Word: slog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln Battalion after its retreat from Teruel. Of 500 men who had started the battle there were about 100 filthy, unarmed survivors, silent or snarling, lying dead-beat on a hillside. In a week, with new replacements and an issue of old Russian Imperial Army rifles, they had to slog back into the line, still dopey with fatigue. "You fired till the rifle got too hot to handle; then you opened the bolt and blew down the barrel and let it cool, resting your face on your extended arm, waiting. You got so you were afraid to lift your head...
Last week the stockholders of Container Corp. of America received a printed postcard from their company, beginning with the well-worn refrain: "It is our policy to give our stockholders full information at all times. . . ." Prepared to slog through the usual corporate platitudes, Container stockholders opened their eyes wide at what followed: "We recognize that while matters of considerable importance will be submitted at the Annual Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited...
Some 3,000 music-lovers who jammed the doors of the sawdust-covered stock pavilion of University of Wisconsin's agricultural college forced curly-haired Violinist Fritz Kreisler to slog through mud to a rear entrance, postpone his concert until he had his shoes shined...
...first time in U. S. history, a President motored from the White House to his office. Reason: Washington's 12-in. snowfall last week. Rather than slog through the drifts from the White House to his office in the State, War & Navy building, just across the side street, President Hoover entered his limousine, drove circuitously around the block...