Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head, was knocked out for a few minutes. Two years later, he suddenly fell into an epileptic fit, had to leave school. After that, every day for 17 years, fits seized him as often as 18 times a day. While his nine brothers and sisters grew up, he clung to his mother, a man-size baby. Last October, in despair, his parents took him to Neurologist Howard Douglas John Fabing of Cincinnati...
...Government. Few Prime Ministers would have tried to hang on with a majority of 81 in a House which is normally Conservative by 210. But for two long days stubborn Neville Chamberlain clung to his office while Adolf Hitler struck savagely at the Low Countries (see p. 22). Desperately Mr. Chamberlain appealed to Laborites Attlee and Arthur Greenwood and to Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair to join a National Government. But both Labor and Liberals were firm. Labor, with its 164 votes, though it could not command a majority, could write its own ticket with all Britain demanding national unity...
During the first mile, Bimelech looked like a champion. He broke fast, caught up with Joseph Widener's fleet-footed Roman. Down the backstretch, he clung to Roman's heels. Coming around the far turn-where races are usually won or lost-Bradley's green & white silks flashed in front. Roman had faltered. It would be a breeze for Bimelech from...
...millions of U. S. citizens who have long clung to the unhistoric legend that U. S. diplomacy has been uniformly unsuccessful and U. S. foreign policy equally nonexistent, a pamphlet published this week will come as a great jolt. For it describes succinctly and with circumstantial detail how Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull, in the few brief months leading up to World War II, went about their job of making decisions in U. S. foreign policy. Its name is American White Paper (Simon & Schuster; St). Its authors are Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner...
Even so, she managed to stagger up to the attic, crawled out of a window to the steep roof. There she clung while her husband's murderers ransacked the house, finally went away. All night she lay there, afraid they would come back. In the morning she was discovered, finally rescued by the Stockton Volunteer Fire Department. While Sheriff J. William Hall investigated, groups of enraged men started scouring Worcester County, searching Negro shacks, barns, cypress swamps...