Word: slog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a punch among the experts on Communism who too often do all their legwork in the library. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956, Zorza roamed the streets of Budapest to cover the fighting, brought out some of the most vivid reporting on the revolt. But Zorza can also slog through the dull duty of culling, collecting and collating material from the Russian press, reads six dailies that reach him within 36 hours of publication, has 50 filing drawers crammed full of significant data. "When you do your research yourself," says he, "you combine it all in your own mind...
...above through the ice glare, like spots before the eyes-to the summit ridge. The excitement rises; the onlooker, tensed like the climbers for so long against so many obstacles, pushes forward out of his seat to be with the first assault team, Bourdillon and Evans, as they slog out for the south summit at least, and, God willing, the peak...
Into the Mud. A quiet, grey-thatched man who looks more like a banker than an earth mover, Kiewit nevertheless knows how to slog into the mud, show his men what to do, get the most out of them. If he likes a job, he says: "I'm pleased but not satisfied." He has an unpretentious office on the tenth floor of the Omaha National Bank building, maintains twelve others from coast to coast, but is stubbornly publicity-shy. "We've done pretty well without it," he says laconically. He seldom takes a vacation, but sometimes, with...
Matt Ridgway kept visiting his advancing troops, warning them not to extend their lines too rapidly. But the sudden rains last week made his warning unnecessary in most sectors. Marines attacking near Hoengsong had to slog through eight to 20 inches...
...highway, knifed in a sweeping end run to the railroad and highway north of Kumchon to cut the main Communist supply line. The British Commonwealth 27th Brigade leapfrogged U.S. troops, sliced toward Kumchon in a wide northeast arc. The main body of the 1st Cavalry Division continued to slog up the Kumchon highway behind Patton tanks...