Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year Brokers Tip Won. It was a bard school. In morning workouts (young Eddie had the man-sized chore of galloping 15 horses every morning), Davison would never tell him simply to "breeze this horse a half mile with a nice snug hold." Instead, he would tell him to work the half in 50 seconds?and he meant neither one second more nor one second less. Eddie learned to have a clock in his head." In New Orleans in 1933?the year Brokers Tip won the Derby?a "bug boy"* named Arcaro began to get into print...
Most of Thomas Alva Edison's diary is like this day's extract-an approach to all & sundry on a one-track even keel. Like his neat, snug handwriting, which seems exactly to reflect him, Edison's way of life indicates no ups & downs-only a remorseless, meticulous line of continuity. Editor Runes has printed only a handful of Edison's daily records (along with many of his articles and public statements), but they are enough to show what a strange assortment of things swam in the sea of cool equanimity that was Edison...
...Palm Beach on Florida's east coast, a stiff wind was blowing. It rattled the palm trees with a sound like distant machine guns, piled huge stacks of cumulus clouds in front of the sun. From the sea, a salty film of spindrift swept over the cluster of snug beach houses. In one of them last week, sitting intently by his radio, Under Secretary of State Robert Abercrombie Lovett listened to the President's undramatic announcement of a dramatic new turn in U.S. foreign policy...
...clock the ist Marine Division on Peleliu had made only 200 yards. The Japanese lieutenant had noted in his diary that although the bombardment had altered the island's scenery, only one man in his company was hurt. Snug in their caves, the Japanese waited until the first wave hit the beach, then, "the guns on point and island opened, many of those back in the ridge, and a mortar barrage so heavy that those who lived through it said it was the worst they had ever seen." By nightfall there were 1,298 dead & wounded Marines, the beachhead...
...Communists had even cracked south into Central China, after giving the bonfire treatment to long stretches of the vital Lunghai railway. One-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng and some 100,000 men were snug in the rugged Tapieh hills, just northeast of Hankow-a constant menace to the Yangtze valley...