Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tech clung to a slim lead, until the Crimson finally began hitting as a team. With M.I.T. ahead, 25 to 22, Harvard scored 12 straight points before the Engineers managed two free throws for the half-time 34 to 27 totals. Between them, in the last ten minutes of the half, Barnett and Harrington scored 18 of the Crimson's 26 points...
...desert fighter of World War II, wrote to London's Sunday Times: "Unless I, as a soldier, am grossly at fault in my estimate of Cyprus ... it has none or practically none of the requisites of an efficient military base." Unshaken by this argument, Lennox-Boyd last week clung stubbornly to the line that Cyprus is strategically vital and that self-determination must wait. If Greek Cypriots continued to insist on union with Greece, he said, the "inevitable" result would be partition of Cyprus' 3,572 square miles into Greek and Turkish zones...
Yale kicked off, a long, spiralling kick that carried to Harvard's goal line. A lineman caught it and darted for the near sideline. A deafening crescendo of agonied yells sped the runner past the midfield stripe, behind a series of crushing blocks. Two tackles clung to him but he would not stop. Finally, crushed under a mountain of Yale muscle, he lateraled a pass between the legs of a tackler, and a teammate gathered the ball into his arms for the last twenty yards and the first of Harvard's nine touchdowns...
Adlai still clung to a narrow lead in Minnesota and Oklahoma. Stevenson carried Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia, but seemed likely in each case to end with narrower margins than in 1952. An irony of G.O.P. gains in the South was that they came largely from segregation-conscious white voters, while the G.O.P.'s civil-rights record was winning over Negro votes from Memphis to Miami...
After exactly five minutes of spontaneous enthusiasm, a woman with more courage than talent sang the national anthem. To the surprise and discomfit of everyone, she reached the final high note, clung to it desperately and retreated. There was a sign of relief from the audience...