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Word: clingingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Celtics Jumped to a 25-19 first period lead on the shooting of Jo Jo White and John Havlicek. They managed to cling to the advantage, and widen the margin to nine points midway through the second period before the Bullets began their comeback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3rd Period Comeback Enables Bullets to Defeat Celts, 112-99 | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...weighed in with quotations allegedly drawn from the Russian text of Gulag, which was published in Paris last month. All the Soviet accounts of his book, Solzhenitsyn said, were distortions designed to conceal its real content from Russian readers. Thus do Soviet leaders show, he declared, "how tenaciously they cling to the bloody past and how they want to drag it with them, like a sealed up sack, into the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Solzhenitsyn's Counterattack | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

Above all, Rockefeller is the rigid conservative that he now swears he is. He is not tilting rightward to win the nomination, only to tilt to the left after his election. In places like Arizona and North Dakota, speaking before Republicans who are happy with America and cling to the status quo, Nelson Rockefeller is showing his true colors. Listen...

Author: By Kevin A. Stafford, | Title: Rocky Runs Right | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

Football center Carl Cling, still not in top meatman condition, will try to round into shape against U Mass...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Matmen Meet UMass, Hofstra Today | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...doubt about it, the heavyweights are our weak points, but they are likely to start winning pretty soon," Lee said. "Cling is very scrappy--he won't be pinned, and Smith is only a freshman so we'll just have to wait...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Matmen Meet UMass, Hofstra Today | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

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