Word: slunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retreat-tattered, dusty men, walking, piled on horse-drawn carts, or riding bicycles which were sometimes without tires. Madly the Germans tried to exchange rum, margarine and other rations for civilian clothes. Fascist Rexists had waited three days at the railway station for a train that never came, then slunk off to hide as best they could. Said a German officer: "We do not like traitors; we merely use them...
...commercial manufacturers expropriated the designs of the Guild's hand-tooled products, mass-produced them cheaply. William Morris and the older Guildsmen died; the younger ones lost heart. Soon the model community died too. Arthur Cullen slunk back to the East End. World War I and the Depression did the rest...
...slunk instead a Roman eagle...
...Spokesman Lord Snell charged Lord Portsea with "exaggerating" conditions on the Channel Islands, the Baron rose again. Said he, in his quavering voice, the Islands should never have been abandoned in the first place. "If we had held out," he cried, "the Scharnhorst and her friends could not have slunk up the Channel. . . . They say there is no hope. . . of food being sent. We can only send bombs. . . . If I could find a teller, I would divide now. Will any noble Lord tell with me against the Government...
Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...