Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
Toward the end of the war, Pratt said, the Navy had begun to improve itself, but "the Army clung throughout to [Major] General [Alexander] Surles, retired, who . . . simply lacked the background to be anything more than one of the glorified lackeys the Army system produced...
...mile after mile the crowds cheered, whistled, sometimes wept. In mid-Manhattan blizzards of ticker tape and torn paper fluttered from the buildings. Paper streamers caught on bayonets and clung to uniforms, but not a soldier's hand was raised...
...lived in the Gothic Middle Ages-and I am thinking not only of the skyline with its painted towers, gates and walls . . . the crooked, haunted-looking alleys. ... In the atmosphere itself something had clung of ... the hysteria of the dying Middle Ages, something of latent spiritual epidemic. It's a strange thing to say about a sensibly sober, modern commercial city, but it was conceivable that a Children's Crusade might suddenly erupt there-in short, an anciently neurotic substratum was perceptible...
North of Quito, an old, worn-out locomotive huffed and puffed its way through steep mountain passes, carrying faithful Quitenos on their annual pilgrimage to the Virgin's upland shrine. Eating, singing and chattering pilgrims jammed the seats and aisles of the ancient wooden coaches, clung to roofs, windows and couplings...