Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Hiss clung staunchly to his impeccable role. If Chambers had lied, then Hiss had been incredibly maligned and made the victim of a monstrous slander. If Chambers spoke the truth, then Alger Hiss had led an almost incredibly clever double life. The two of them could do little more now than stand to one side, speaking their final lines, spectators more than actors in their own drama...
...spots of rust. The tuna fish made them sing, and so did the coral and the very sands of the lagoon. Oil streaks that had floated miles away remained menacingly hot. So insignificant was the salubrious effect of salt water that even the rocky ledges of neighboring atolls clung to their radioactivity in the teeth of foaming breakers...
...explosive. Already violence flared at Shanghai's exits. As soon as a train backed up to the North Station, a tidal wave of people ran down the platform and surged over the train, filling it up within ten seconds. Later arrivals covered the roofs of the coaches and clung to the locomotive. At the Yangtze wharves huge throngs collected every morning, waiting for a boat. When the gates opened for passengers to board, a black torrent gushed on to the ship. After the craft was dangerously overloaded, crewmen turned fire hoses on the masses still scrambling to climb aboard...
Thomas inherited a standing committee that had clung to the House like the Old Man of the Sea and wouldn't be shaken off. It had spent around $700,000, and had over 200 file cabinets jammed with information on scores of organizations. And according to public opinion polls, it had overwhelming support of the voters. This fact, coupled with the flamboyant leadership of Thomas, seemed to indicate that the group which flourished even in the days of Roosevelt, would be a feature of American politics for some time to come...
...they are to survive the air travel slump, expect that Pan Am's trick will soon be adopted by other lines. Said T.W.A.'s Warren Lee Pierson: "The principle of low-cost service has been recognized by the steamships and the railroads while the airlines have stubbornly clung to a one-class service. It's time the airlines offered a choice of classes...