Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that during the present crisis some in Congress have failed to grasp the requirement of our times, have clung to old formulas in a world of basic change; that some Republican Party leaders were slow, very slow, to appreciate the fundamental issues involved in the present armed conflict. I know that there have long been in the Republican Party forces which really believe that a political party exists solely for the advancement of private, selfish, material interests, and who would . . . turn back the clock of social progress; that negative and subversive elements flock to the party out of power...
Already reports this week spoke of a wholesale, panicky flight of Germans and home-grown Nazis from the Baltic States to the Reich. Refugees clung to the roofs of overcrowded trains. In Riga, ships were packed with evacuees...
...Argentina, the dominant "Colonels' Clique" clung to its typical Fascist state, apparently unworried by threats of a British-U.S. embargo against Argentine trade. Well-informed authorities in London and Latin America doubted that Britain would actually go very far on this road, suggested that her investments in Argentina (?387,000,000) were too great, her trade too important to jeopardize. There were other weapons than embargo. A U.S. threat to further arm Brazil and Chile might undermine the "Colonels' Clique." Large credits to set up competing industries in the same countries might frighten Argentine industrialists. Even...
...stock market remained steady as John R. Ward, Jr. '45 remained in the president's chair. Charles K. Cobb '46, likewise held the position of Ibis, and P. A. Jenks '45 clung to the Narthex post...
Most disappointed man of the week, however, is not Croonersinatra but rather the marine sergeant who was letting the dishes rot, the barracks fester, and the girls alone in anticipation of the arrival of the romantic singer. Happiest were the microphones in the R.K.O. theatres which will now be clung to and loved for as long as the chain pays possibly into the five figures for the vaunted services of the caveman...