Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operated on him and removed his gall bladder. He appeared to progress fairly well after that, but soon he began to fail. For four weeks he fought tenaciously to live. Doctors performed two more major operations. It seemed that no ordinary man could withstand such punishment, but incredibly, MacArthur clung to life. Then at last he let go, drifted into a coma. His great will was no longer a match for his old body...
...Clyde, a bimonthly magazine for men started by Gerald Rothberg, a 26-year-old bachelor who has sensibly clung to his job on Esquire (promotion manager). An equivocating blend of Esquire (semi-intellectual articles) and Playboy (semi-revealed torsos), Clyde in two issues has not yet decided which approach it prefers...
Piloting that B-29 was the nearest de Antonio has come to holding, or even wanting to hold, a steady job. He has clung to his independence, which means that no one--not wives (he has had four), not employers (he has had dozens)--has been able to cling to him. After the War he got his master's degree in philosophy at Columbia while working as a barge captain. It was an ideal job for a graduate student: all he had to do was untie the barge in the morning and tie it up again at night. The rest...
...unavoidably detained: at that moment, he was out on the golf course, seven under par. Demaret had not won a tournament in seven years; the closest he had come was second in the 1961 P.G.A. Seniors. Jimmy did not win at Palm Springs either-but he stubbornly clung to the lead until Tommy Jacobs beat him with a 9-in. putt in a sudden-death playoff. Jacobs is muscular, nervous and 28. Said Demaret: "I'm awfully glad that Tommy could win it. After all, he's almost through, and I've still got years...
...next French apostle of collective security was Aristide Briand, ten times Premier of France, a spellbinding orator who heralded Germany's 1926 entry into the League of Nations with the optimistic prediction: "There will be no more war." Briand clung tenaciously to the Foreign Ministry, explaining: "If I leave, the rightists will get a minister of their choice who will return to a policy of force. This will make the fortune of the German nationalists." At tending a bullfight in Spain, Briand reacted like a polished diplomat, observing, "Suppress the matador, the picadors and the toreadors...