Word: clung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week thousands of Dutchmen concluded there would be no return for them. For weeks many had clung to their homes and their businesses, hoping that the government would impose moderation on the rampaging nationalists. Instead, the government had only made the seizures orderly, making clear that there was no hope of a reversal. On New Year's Day the new-standardized team of military men, civilian supervisors and union representatives took over the management of Bank Indonesia, and the bank's 24 senior Dutch officials were summarily dismissed. With that, many another Dutchman started packing...
...nearly a year the fires of resentment against Indonesia's highhanded President Sukarno have smoldered quietly. Deserted by more and more of his once faithful political and military followers, Sukarno has clung adamantly to his plans for bringing "guided democracy" to Indonesia. Last week, with his supporters limited to a few old hangers-on and Indonesia's increasingly powerful Communist Party, the embers of resentment burst into flame...
Died. Charles W. (Charlie) Caldwell Jr., 56, Princeton University's canny head football coach since 1945; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. A onetime (class of '25) Tiger gridiron great (fullback on the 1922 "Team of Destiny"), Caldwell stubbornly clung to his modern version of the old-fashioned single-wing formation, brought Old Nassau untied and undefeated elevens in 1950 and 1951, won six Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) championships in six years (1947-52), was voted 1950's ''coach of the year...
Magic & Death Wishes. Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character: ¶ Despite his insistence that he was a scientist first and last, Freud clung stubbornly to Lamarck's idea that acquired traits can be inherited-which to serious scientists now makes no more sense than the notion that the earth is flat. ¶ Throughout his life, Freud dabbled with occultism and telepathy. He narrowly avoided publishing acceptance of some weird, spiritistic rigmarole, but he made it plain in private that he believed...
...angry sea poured into the holds to make an expanding porridge of the barley stowed below, those of the Pamir's crew who had escaped the fury of the pounding wreckage clung desperately to nets on the heaved-up windward side of the already sinking ship. When the Pamir went down, just two hours after the storm struck, many of the crew were already dead; some, swimming or clinging to debris in the water, were sucked down as the vessel sank; exhausted, others gave up soon afterward...