Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame me." a Cuban U.N. official assured a U.S. delegate when the lights blew. "I was right here all the time." Some New Yorkers, claiming that they had seen a satellite pass over at the moment the lights failed, argued that the Russians had done it again. Many clung stubbornly to the belief that it was all a Government-ordered test to see if Americans could stand up to an air raid...
...subjects poured onto the tarmac of Salisbury Airport last week, but there were no leaders of society among them. For they were black, and had straggled in from the African townships of Harare and Highfield outside the city. They crowded onto balconies, perched in jacaranda trees, and clung to flagpoles around the airport building. More than 6,000 of them were squeezed in alight mass, hemmed in on one side by a 12-ft. wire fence, on the other by a cordon of police and their dogs. When the R.A.F. Comet whistled to a stop and the chubby, unsmiling...
...afternoon a battalion of reinforcements from the two Jitna was helicoptered in to join the Hotel Company assault, and more marines came ashore from the Talladega at dusk. Still the Viet Cong clung to their positions...
...Gradually he earned enough through advertising illustration to eke out a comfortable bohemian existence on the Lower East Side. When the art world suddenly went pop in 1962, Andy found himself lionized by the white-tie world of the Museum of Modern Art. But he cut few social capers, clung to the company of fellow artists...
...best society is to amuse or shock. That theory may have worked in Victorian London, particularly for witty, shocking Oscar Wilde. But it never went over in New York. Afraid of jeopardizing their own social security, New York's finest followed the example of the Boston Brahmins, clung to the names in the Social Register and the rules in Emily Post as loyally as if they had made them up themselves−which mostly they had. In recent years, however, New York has gone Wilde, and the newest darlings on its social circuit are artists and artisans...