Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Mary did not cling to the insubstantial shadows of what had been. She moved easily through the changing scenes . . . She died in the knowledge that the crown of these realms, worn so gloriously by her husband and by her son and so soon to be set with solemnity on the head of her granddaughter, is far more broadly and securely based on the people's love . . . than in the sedate days of her youth, when rank and privilege ruled society...
...message, possibly from a hand-cranked "Gibson Girl" transmitter of the type used on life rafts. As a great sea-air search got underway the next morning, one of the 20-odd planes which took part sighted what seemed to be a raft, with six people clinging to it. But they were never seen again. A 20-ft. sea was running, and it seemed doubtful that survivors could cling to a raft for long...
Dealing with man in this fashion, Miller said, it becomes impossible to cling to the surface realism of Ibsen's play of the family and the "living room," and at the same time give its proper force to the impact of the social process itself...
...gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some scores, Canada's China policymakers still look with cool distaste on the Nationalists in Formosa, still cling to their passive attitude toward Chinese Communism...
Dirty Hands HOEDERER: . . . How you cling to your purity, young man! . . . You intellectuals . . . use it as a pretext . . . to do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your side, wearing kid gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbow. I've plunged them in filth and blood...