Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must disagree emphatically with your characterization of the President of Bolivia as a dictator. The late Gualberto Villaroel was not pro-Nazi; in fact, he was one of the few men in all Latin America who clung consistently to the view that the democracies would win World War II. Nor can I subscribe to the implication that Juan Lechin, the Minister of Mines, is a radical . . . Nevertheless, the entire story shows clearly that the Bolivian situation was approached objectively, and that an attempt was made to get at the facts and to appraise them without bias. Consequently, I cannot object...
Horrified and dismayed by the notoriety that clung to Billy even in death, members of his family hired a lawyer, threatened the undertaker with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone...
Book on a Table. But before the doctor came, Abe Feller jumped to his feet. "It's no use," he cried. "The doctors can't help me!" He ran to the rear of the apartment. Mrs. Feller clung to him-first to his head, then to one arm, finally to one leg. While she struggled, Feller threw open a window. She screamed and cried, "Don't jump!" He broke away, and within seconds his body lay twelve stories below in an open cellarway...
...expected, the Democrats won handily in Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, and clung to their capitols in Missouri, Ohio, Rhode Island and West Virginia...
...spite of great progress on material levels, Davidson has clung to a brand of education that is almost classical in nature, a brand of education that shuns all trade school ideas and is primarily concerned with the development of a thinking, self-sufficient individual...