Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis to grapple with the question of public nudity. Their last national convention, meeting in Saragossa's bull ring a few days before Franco's rebellion flared, hotly debated the question: in any Spanish village, should a majority favoring nudism be empowered to strip a minority that clung to their shirts and skirts? An appeal to the rights of individuals to choose for themselves was overruled. The triumphant argument: no community could long endure half clothed, half naked...
...looked. Since the successful truce negotiations last spring, more & more Nationalist leaders, including some moderates, had reached the conclusion that a deal with the Communists would be futile because they could not be trusted. What, Nanking asked, would be the point of a coalition in which the Communists still clung to their semi-underground military position as a means of extorting more concessions from the Kuomintang...
Aging Ed Kelly still clung to Chicago's top political spot. The deal left him the city patronage. But shrewd, suave Jake Arvey will run everything else. A new era had quietly begun in Chicago's tough, corrupt politics. Not necessarily a better...
...Philly days, every time they dug up a promising ballplayer he was sold (there were always bills to pay). Now the Phillies clung happily to a 21-year-old, Philadelphia-born rookie named Del Ennis, who was hitting .315 and was one of the season's likeliest new players. The real hero of the team was sparkplug Second Baseman Emil Verban. He got mad when the St. Louis Cardinals sold him down the river to the Phillies two months ago for $40,000. He promptly began doing things around second base he never suspected he could do-especially when...
Bell-Ringer. One of the best city editors in the business, Reutlinger has clung to his spot for a dozen years, while a dozen managing editors have come & gone. (His standard, deadpan approach to a new Hearst-appointed managing editor: "If you don't want me to work for you, just let me know and I'll make other arrangements." He never has to.) Hearst accountants may wince at the long-distance tolls he runs up, but he rings up scoops that way. By casual telephone calls, he got beats on the Dionne quintuplets' birth (it came...