Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some U.S. editors still clung to their skepticism, they lost it next day when Jacques Fath followed with his own version of "the boyish look" and the "downward-sliding silhouette." His models walked with their weight thrown back on their heels to suppress bosoms and accentuate their southering belts. There was no blinking it: it was the "debutante slouch" of the '20s. Could beaded dresses, long cigarette holders and the shrill laugh be far behind...
...encircling wire fence. Some rebounded toward the single open gate; others climbed over; still others, with terror's unnatural strength, uprooted the fence and crawled under. Worker Mildred Reed dashed from the fiery plant with an armload of detonators, was knocked down ten times by flying splinters, but clung irrationally to her burden...
...American League. For a couple of disconcerting days last week, Rosen and the Indians faltered before the class and drive of the rejuvenated Yankees; they lost a three-game series 1 to 2. But they were still in first place, and Cleveland's long-suffering fans still clung boisterously to the notion that this was the Indians' year...
...poor Jewish grocer, Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia, has carried a memory of his homeland through a life of wanderings. He came to Paris in 1910, lived through both prewar cubism and postwar surrealism, took something from both, was captured by neither. Instead, he clung to his own haunting evocations of nameless gaiety and wistful sadness, in a weightless world of objects flung aloft by some superhuman juggler and suspended in midair. Many of his themes derive from the Russian folk tales and Jewish rituals of his youth, still more from his happy marriage with his late wife Bella...
Tragic Delay. Until Friday, Bidault clung to the hope of help from his friend John Foster Dulles: perhaps some direct U.S. intervention, perhaps a declaration that the Tonkin delta around Hanoi was vital to the free world and would be defended if necessary by U.S. arms. That afternoon Dienbienphu fell. Overnight, Bidault read Dulles' speech, admitting that "present conditions there do not provide a suitable basis for the U.S. now to participate with its armed forces." It was a tragic day for Georges Bidault. To a sympathetic questioner, he said wearily: "My trumps? When I look at my hand...