Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bleaker. Except for minor concessions, the two sides remained just as far apart as they were when Freeman Frazee, president of the Detroit printing pressmen's union, led his men off both papers-an exodus joined by one other union, the paper and plate handlers. "Smoky" Frazee has clung stubbornly to his demands, which include premium pay for pressmen working Saturdays. The papers have been equally adamant in refusing them...
That anecdote suggests the innocence in the Irish character that is both appealing and maddening, and Novelist O'Faolain knows as much about it as any Irishman now working: "Ireland is learning, as Americans say, the hard way. Ireland has clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe...
...long while, it seemed that Alvin York was determined to contribute to another Army legend-that old soldiers never die. He had begun to fade as early as 1949, when he suffered a stroke, was repeatedly hospitalized thereafter, but he clung to life. Only last week did death, of "general debility," finally come in a Nashville Veterans Administration hospital to Alvin York...
...defeated whites clung to the past when Mississippi had been one of the richest states in the Union and Jefferson Davis the rebel President. They were scared because they felt that they were few and the Negroes myriad; they were stubborn because only by convincing themselves that the Negro was somehow inferior, like a pet or a horse, could they justify their long crime of refusing to recognize him as an equal human being; they were violent, partly from the strain of sustaining this myth, partly from fear that if the myth was once cracked, at any point...
...least $11 million last year. Smart merchandising counts most in the wax business, and Johnson is usually a stride ahead of competitors. It was among the first to switch from natural waxes to lower-cost synthetics in 1950, turned to aerosols (now 70% of industry sales) while competitors clung to older wipe-on waxes and polishes. The company raised its research and development staff from 100 to 300 in the past ten years, now markets 750 products. They are put to some unusual uses in unlikely places. Finnish yachtsmen have discovered that Johnson's ordinary Paste Wax keeps barnacles...