Word: clung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist Strunsky liked to call himself a "Tory." He clung to certain "oldfashioned beliefs," like the idea that "parents are a useful thing for children to have; that freedom is a good thing for everybody; that America is a pretty good country for its plain people . . . that the story of the occupation of the American continent is not an exclusive record of graft and plunder and wastage [and] that ,the industrial history of America [is] not entirely a story of company Cossacks riding down coal strikers . . . but also the story of a rising standard of living...
Winthrop's Puritans clung to their second-place standing in the intra-House hockey loop with a 6-2 win over Dudley yesterday morning on the Arena ice, sending the Commuters into a last-place tie with Leverett. Hans Estin, Puritan first string center, paced the scoring with two goals...
...three harassed officials tried in vain to pull the traveler from the luggage rack to which he clung. At last, the carriage was uncoupled and shunted into a tunnel. There, in complete darkness, the adamantine passenger sulked and fumed. Not until the railway officials threatened to shunt his car onto a siding permanently did he finally consent to leave the train and wait for the regular 4:25 to Grantham...
Winthrop's Puritans clung to their House basketball lead Friday night with a 39 to 34 triumph over Lowell House. In the evening's only other match, Eliot trimmed Kirkland in two overtime periods...
...were reassured by the uniforms. Along Jews Street, the quarter's center, only a few shops were open. Life in the Jewish quarter had ground to a shuddering halt as Arab violence flared up at the announcement of Palestine's partition. Those Jews whom we did see clung closely to their doorsteps, ready to flee inside at the slight est warning. The only Jew oblivious to it all was a turbaned Moorish Jew, who sat silently leaning against a building in the sun begging for baksheesh...