Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With four-fifths of the country owned by Englishmen or their clients after 1662, a small farmer could not afford even to think about sex. Marriage for him was early death. And he clung to a religion that often tended to confirm his caution. The 18th century priests, trained in the flesh-hating Jansenist seminaries of France, gave him the rationale for what he had to do anyway. It was not a specifically Catholic matter. Protestant churches in Scotland and Wales, countries also under the British thumb, were equally repressive...
...meaning and no clearly understood direction. As the U.S. enters the "postindustrial age," the bitter questions about the future, the nostalgia for the past-all the 19th century symptoms seem to be returning. Perhaps tomorrow will see men longing for the rigidities of the industrial century, as previous generations clung to the stabilities of their rural past. Extreme alienation from tomorrow's more complex society may well provoke the anarchist syndrome...
...yards to a series of bluffs covered with tamarisk, brambles and wild blackberries. In 1944 the bluffs were ablaze with German fire: in the first violent hours of the invasion, some 3,000 Americans were cut down as they waded in from their landing craft and clung desperately to the perilous band of beach...
...civilians with solid military backgrounds. Its meeting in Peking last week to elect a new Politburo and Standing Committee produced several surprises. Mao was, of course, re-elected chairman, and newly anointed Successor Lin Piao was chosen as the only vice chairman. However, Premier Chou Enlai, who had long clung to his ranking as third in the power hierarchy, was listed with two others as simply a member of the Standing Committee. China watchers saw this as a distinct loss of influence for Chou, who has a well-deserved reputation as an expert in political survival. Another surprise...
...graduates (19.1 to CBS's 18.3) and among families earning $15,000 or more (20.9 to 19.1). The results, in money, bear him out; NBC topped CBS in prime-time commercial billings, $212 million to $210 million; ABC booked $166 million. In around-the-clock billings, however, CBS clung to first place, with $387 million to NBC's $366 million and ABC's $278 million...