Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a second period scoring surge of three goals, the Crimson clung to its one-goal lead through the second half of play to gain its seventh victory in nine games. Al Change, playing center forward in place of the injured Chris Ohiri, scored the first two goals, and Doug Gifford kicked the third and winning count into the nets...
...leadership in the Big Ten. Elsewhere, two long Navy field goals edged out Notre Dame 13-10. Syracuse, paced by its great All-America Halfback Ernie Davis, romped over Pitt 28-9. Maryland's pinpoint passing attack gave the Terrapins a quick 14-point lead, and they clung on to win 21-17 over Penn State. Once-beaten Georgia Tech capitalized on three Florida fumbles for a decisive 20-0 victory. In the less bruising Ivy League, Princeton retained the top spot, smothering hapless Brown...
...Affairs of state are being run loosely," wrote the New York Daily News's Washington Bureau Chief Ted Lewis. "It is no secret that the so-called 'Kennedy system' -actually no system at all but a hodgepodge of advisers-has made for presidential vacillation." But Lewis clung to a shred of hope: "Whether the President has muffed the ball in failing to make use of the leadership qualities with which he is endowed is still open to argument...
Planemakers' sales and profits plunged downward at a speed faster than light. Republic Aviation, which stubbornly clung to the airplane and currently relies on its hot F-IO5 fighter-bomber for 98% of its business, has seen its sales dip from $547 million in 1955 to $215 million last year. The three big companies that winged into the commercial jet market were also hard hit: Boeing, Douglas and Convair spent some $700 million to develop their big jets, and only Boeing is in sight of the break-even point...
...some faraway, half-illiterate country but in Texas, home of most of the U.S.'s 2,000,000 or more citizens of Mexican origin. Although some families have had U.S. citizenship since Texas' annexation in 1845, most of these, like the Juan-come-latelys, have clung to their ancestral language, customs -and faith in curanderismo. It flourishes throughout the Rio Grande Valley...