Word: clingingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brett Janis, at 118-lbs., stretched his winning streak to three matches with an 8-5 decision. Sam Cole, a 126-pounder, followed Janis' lead and rode his opponent for the final 30 seconds, clinging to a tight lead for the 5-4 win.
THE GRAPES OF WRATH Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe adapted Steinbeck's novel of the Dust Bowl into an absorbing three-hour docudrama marked by ruthless unsentimentality about the Joad clan, clinging haplessly and disastrously to folk wisdom and totemic faith in the family.
Because the White House Christmas tree was in the Blue Room, the President was put in the Red Room to await his cue to stride to the podium. That meant 30 more feet to walk, five seconds longer on the approach, more time for the cameras to pick up the...
The game ended, appropriately, with the Harvard football team unable to do anything. The Crimson had used all its timeouts and could only watch as Boston University ran out the clock, clinging to a 24-23 victory Saturday at The Stadium.
Sontag's first two collections of essays, Against Interpretation and Styles ) of Radical Will, also made her a crucial guide to the intentions of the avant- garde. She attacked Anglo-American fiction for being "deeply, if not irrevocably, compromised by philistinism," for clinging to realism instead of pursuing experimental technique...