Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stars and unsmiling face was Henri Eugène Navarre, a quiet but steely, cultured but tough general of the French army. He had come from Paris to take command of a war that was going badly for France and the non-Communist world-a Red nightmare that had clung to the green jungles and rice fields of Indo-China for seven years...
...until Barbacki had spent three days and nights on his ledge did the rescue party reach him. For 70 hours, with only a few ounces of honey to eat, he had clung to the ledge with frostbitten hands. Veteran Chamonix guides, who hauled Barbacki to safety, thought that Chulliat might have lived had the two men tried the descent roped together. Amateur Climber Barbacki merely said: "I guess I was lucky to stay where...
Back at the prison, Henderson, a man who owns 23,000 acres of Texas cattle and oil land and believes himself worth approximately half a million dollars, clung stubbornly to his old theory that young Franks was made of worthwhile stuff...
...went no further. Under a continual barrage of questions from the committee and its counsel, Frank Tavener, Furry clung to his privilege to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution...
...Opposed to Plato's philosophy and the Greek search for philosophic wisdom, the Jewish Pharisees clung to a law of stern, ritual purity. Each tradition, in Bruckberger's view, was deficient. But broken, then united by Christ's love, they merged to give Christianity both its traditional faith and its abstract philosophy...