Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assured of such handsome Federal aid, he reasoned, states which now cling to weekly benefits averaging as low as $7 a week could and would raise their scales. Lester estimated the total Federal cost of his program as about $1,250,000,000, a sum equal to what the Government now spends for five days...
Expanding Pressure. But Germans did stand up to fight and die, to cling tenaciously to the German soil, to patch the breaches with more men against a grinding weight that expanded and extended northward to the British Venlo sector as the battle went through three smoke-clouded days and fiery nights...
Said Perkins: "We Americans preach free competition but we don't really practice what we preach. We moralize about the competitive way, and then cling to tariff schedules so high that foreign businessmen cannot enter the U.S. market. . . . A sizable part of American business will want to join cartels after the war to protect its domestic market, and . . . popular opinion will back such a move [because] we are still under the delusion that the way to be prosperous is to sell as much as we can abroad and to buy as little as we can from abroad...
Grandmother Sophia Jane had raised eleven children. "She wore a stiffly starched white chambray bonnet, with a round crown buttoned on a narrow brim." When the cling-peach tree bloomed in her Kentucky garden, she mused: "I have planted five orchards in three States, and now I see only one tree in bloom." Her numerous descendants and her aged servants thought she was the most wonderful, most terrifyingly efficient person alive...
...Helen Gilmour: "From what we had read and heard we believed the French-Canadians were ignorant, backward, distrustful, obstinately teaching their big families to nurse a resentful feeling that they were treated by the English as a conquered people. We found they are neither ignorant nor backward, but they cling to their traditions as we revere our own. ... I felt among friends. . . . We found we are all human beings, with much in common...