Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing Tigers. As Englishmen entered into "the last decade of their grandeur," Artist Ryder, with no faith to cling to, desperately sought to recapture his artistic vitality by painting in the Latin American jungles. Result: he became a bigger social success. "Mr. Ryder," the best critics agreed (in one of Waugh's inimitable parodies of claptrap), "rises like a young trout to the hypodermic injection of a new culture . . . focussing the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism. . . . Mr. Ryder has. found himself." But Anthony Blanche could not be fooled...
...That Britons cling too tightly to the precious pence...
...Congress and public did not understand (because it had not been told clearly and authoritatively) that U.S. prosperity and hope of peace depended to a significant degree on the British loan. If Britain, appalled by the terms, refused the loan, these results were probable: 1) Britain would cling of necessity to closed Empire trade and blocked sterling, thus shutting off a large part of the world from the general flow of commerce; 2) Britain could scarcely participate, as the U.S. hoped she would, in the Bretton Woods plans for freeing currency exchanges and stimulating world trade; 3) currency controls...
...passing one of the many monasteries which cling to those hillsides, he paused before a picture of the Virgin. He put his last coin in the offering box, there & then resolved to enter the Greek Orthodox priesthood. An uncle, a well-to-do priest, shepherded him through the schools of Karditsa, where he excelled as a wrestler and javelin thrower...
Those who still cling to the Dow-Jones theory thought that last week's break was a warning: the market is going down temporarily. But they were a minority. The bulk of the brokers were still sure that, as long as the U.S. has so much cash and comparatively little to buy but stocks, the market has no place...