Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tight Monopoly. Over the years, Big Bill's sledgehammer tactics raised carpenters' wages (current range: $1.75 to $3 per hour) and got them jobs they might otherwise have lost to rival trades. He clung with fierce determination to the tight little monopoly of the A.F.L.'s building-trade unions; he restricted membership, encouraged featherbedding, refused to recognize new building methods and materials. But during the Depression, he lost thousands of members to the C.I.O., did not recoup his losses until the boom years of World...
...never comes to know his true self or his native land until he falls head-over-heels in love with a girl named Lulie, straight from the Midwestern heart of America. " 'Husband,' she said. 'Wife,' he said. The words made them bashful. They clung together against their bashfulness . . . The risen sun over the ocean shone in their faces." Novelist Dos Passos was better when he was angry...
...night long the furies of wind and sea pounded the yacht while Claude clung desperately to a spar. Before dawn the ship's cook went mad and drowned himself. At daybreak three sailors had succeeded in swimming ashore. The last aboard the yacht, Freddy and Claude, both good swimmers, finally decided to chance it. Side by side they dived into the water. Freddy was within two yards of the beach when he looked back and saw his pretty wife in trouble. While Morocco tribesmen shouted from the beach, the playboy-millionaire turned seaward once again. The effort...
Four independent candidates running for City Council clung to their places among the first nine, and combined with two other independents still running strong, threatened to displace the Council majority led by the "good government" group--the Cambridge Civic Association...
...high-school swains discovered a ghost last spring. As they explained darkly to their giggling dates, the ghost was a little girl. She had been hurrying home from the playground when she was hit by an automobile coming down Strasburg Avenue. For a few moments, the little girl clung desperately to the car, rapping on the fender. The driver heartlessly drove on. Then the little girl lost her grip and was crushed beneath a rear wheel...