Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 20, 1949), tried some of his favorite tricks from the old days. He set up a small platform in the center of the huge main stage, kept the action confined to it. To the scandal of traditionalists, he even took away the tent that generations of Pagliaccis have clung to as they sobbed the clown's famous aria. Tenor Ramon Vinay did his sobbing in front of a dismal little curtain that was lowered behind him. As at the Lemonade Opera, perky choristers danced on from time to time with props and a snippet of scenery...
Among the customs to which the inhabitants have clung down through the ages is that of having their own righ, or king. Michael Waters, a cultivated man, sometimes scoffed when visitors called him the King of Inishmurray, but he was connected, through his grandmother's first marriage, with the O'Heraghty family. As far back as anyone could remember, the O'Heraghtys had been rulers of Inishmurray. King Michael, a man of powerful physique and strong will, carried on the O'Heraghty tradition. Said one islander: "He was a learned man, in every way a king...
...Final Summing-Up. Harry Truman answered Bridges. At his press conference the President did not argue the point; he merely affirmed that the U.S. could not bomb China without permission from the U.N. The U.S., he said, was not even considering making any such request. He still clung to the hope, he added, that the whole situation could be resolved by negotiation with the Red Chinese. Was this the Administration's only answer? Last week, after five weeks of vain waiting for the Chinese to agree to a cease-fire in Korea, the U.S. made a behind-the-scenes...
...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...
...three weeks of palaver the Indonesians had clung to their demand that...