Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince Tungi of Tonga believed that the little craft had struck an uncharted reef, capsized and righted herself. "Those aboard," he said, "must have clung to her sides for as long as they were able before the seas washed them away." Why, then, was her compass missing? And her log book? One diehard romanticist persisted in the belief that Dusty Miller had kidnaped his entire ship's company and whisked them away by lifeboat and raft to a desert island to live forever after, free of the perils of divorce courts and bill collectors...
...grandfather John Quincy were U.S. Presidents. His father Charles Francis was Minister to the Court of St. James's (1861-68). Though he wrote two masterpieces (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams), Henry Adams mocked himself as a lifelong failure, perhaps because he clung to the Confucian standard that the truly superior man demands more of himself than of others...
...Chromaster clock sounded its alarm at 4:30 a.m. in his bedroom at home. Shocked to wakefulness after eight hours of sleep, Joe swung out his bare feet and reached for the mound of khaki clothes on the linoleum floor. The shirt, clammy from three days' accumulated sweat, clung dankly to him. The pants, crusted with dirt and splotched with tractor grease, slipped on over the cotton print shorts in which he had slept. The three-hook farm shoes, their sides eaten by barnyard acids, stayed untied as he clomped to the door of his parents' bedroom...
...Under No Circumstances." Among the most striking evidences of a feet-on-the-ground Republican posture was the general willingness to face reality The merest handful of Republican leaders still clung to the idea that Dwight Eisenhower might run again for President. Said Louisiana's National Committeeman John Minor Wisdom: "I would rather see a sick Eisenhower than a well Democrat in the White House." Crooned Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen: "'Duty' is the shiny iridescent word the President learned at West Point. The President knows and will know where his duty lies." To Ev Dirksen...
...Journal accused the premier of "obliquely encouraging the satyagrahis with vague, irresponsible statements that satyagraha will solve the problems of Goan freedom." Many influential Indians, itching for a little direct action in Goa, were asking, "What do we spend $400 million a year on an army for?" But Nehru clung stubbornly to what he called his "basic policy of peaceful approach." He cautiously added: "Of course there may be variations...