Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem has to do with the chairmanship of the party he rode (or carried) to power, the Christian Democratic Union. Canny old Konrad Adenauer clung to the job even after he stepped down as Chancellor nearly three years ago at the age of 87, and has used the post to embarrass his rotund successor with anti-Erhard maneuverings inside the party. Last month, Adenauer decided at last to give up the C.D.U. chairmanship, hoped to install a candidate sympathetic to his policies, preferably Interior Minister Paul Lücke, in the balloting at the C.D.U. convention next month...
...years after Constantine, it was a power within society, acquiring some of the pride, intolerance and triumphal spirit that is part of power's corruption. At the Reformation and after, the church reacted badly to the loss of its claim to be God's only spokesman and clung to its shrunken patrimony of power in ways that justified the exasperation of those who stood outside...
...general, community action is of relatively recent date. As late as 1950, Boston, for instance, still clung to the tradition of its original Puritan Governors, who thought of Christmas as "the awesome event of the Incarnation" and forbade any public display. Then the town fathers rebelled and decided to decorate Boston Common. The decision once made, no expense was spared, and no community square is done with" more style. Thousands of white, orange and blue lights are laced across the bare branches of the park's old elms and spruce trees set up for the occasion. From a distance...
...pounds, Harvard's Bing Sung and M.I.T.'s Harold Hultgren clung to one another for three periods and came out with a dull...
Pravda's Favorite. Wallace, who had little rapport with Truman, clung to his practice of speaking out on foreign affairs. As the shadow of Soviet imperialism lengthened over Europe, he advocated a conciliatory line toward the nation's wartime ally. On Sept. 12, 1946, he made a celebrated speech condemning the Administration's hardening attitude toward the Soviets at the very moment that the U.S. was sparring with Stalin over Europe's post-war boundaries. Infuriated by Wallace's intrusion, which suggested that the U.S. was disunited on the Cold War issues he was negotiating...