Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peaches & Somersaults. To many of the Californians, who clung together like Englishmen in the jungle, London was a strange, provincial place. The men from the Coast bunked together four in a room, hit the chow line as a unit. For dates, they met California girls at Earl's Court, a district halfway between Uxbridge and Southlands College (where the U.S. women's Olympic team was quartered...
Hollywood Was his invention. Charlie Chaplin said, "The whole industry owes its existence to him." Yet of late years he could not find a job in the town he had invented. He clung to the shadows, a bald, eagle-beaked man, sardonic and alone. At parties, he sat drinking quietly, his sharp eyes panning the room for a glimpse of familiar faces, most of them long gone. David Wark Griffith had been The Master, and there was nobody quite like him afterwards...
...grew weary of his austere suite at Walter Reed Hospital, sometimes threatened to move to a Washington hotel. He often demanded sedatives which he did not need. But he clung to life with remarkable tenacity. For years he took a daily drive-usually through Rock Creek Park. Famous visitors to Washington made a point of calling on him. During World War II General George Marshall dropped in almost every fortnight to keep him informed on the progress...
...parents left Russia and joined Canada's new Mennonite colony in the Red River Valley. The empty west assured isolation and few distractions for the Godfearing. They had their churches as they wanted them, without organ, altar or ornamentation. Their preachers were unpaid, farmed for a living. They clung to their pacifism, dressed in the plain garb that allowed no ornamentation or jewelry...
...Motives of Governing. It may be that the final value of The Gathering Storm will be in his picture of the satisfaction and motives of governing. At a time when dictators clung to office because the alternative was to be killed, or when the officials of democratic countries followed wrong policies because they feared defeat in election, Churchill's reports of the actual mechanics of governing, what chances he was willing to take and what risks he could not venture, are in themselves a handbook of political science. They are as worldly as Machiavelli without his cynicism...