Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divided Party. O'Neill himself only narrowly carried the race for a Parliament seat in his own constituency over his opponent, the Catholic-baiting Rev. Ian Paisley. The Unionist Party clung to its lopsided majority in Northern Ireland's House of Commons, but at least twelve of the 36 official Unionist M.P.s are steadfastly against O'Neill, and his efforts to replace a substantial number of them with his own supporters failed completely. Nor did O'Neill succeed in attracting a significant share of the votes of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority. Fed up with...
Because of De Gaulle's steadfast refusal to consider full Common Market membership for the U.K., Britain has clung desperately to the WEU as its only regular forum for multilateral conversations with the Six. When France refused to attend this month's WEU meeting, Paris claimed that what Britain wanted to discuss was the Common Market, a subject technically off-limits to the WEU. Foreign Minister Michel Debré once more raised De Gaulle's favorite specter of Anglo-Saxon conspiracy. Debré declared haughtily: "France considers that the British, who are always inclined to align themselves...
After the change, one Radcliffe dean beamed, "Now Harvard and Radcliffe education are the same except for the name on the diploma," In 1962, the name on the diploma did become the same, though. Harvard clung to the dignity of separate commencements...
...Ceiling. The problem is aggravated by rent control. Alone among U.S. cities, New York has clung to wartime controls, which even today set artificially low ceilings, averaging $22.50 a room, on two-thirds of the city's 2,100,000 rental apartments. Like all price controls, rent ceilings have inflated demands and shriveled supply. Older couples hang on to bargain-rent apartments, which are often larger than they need, after their children have grown up and left home. Private builders, contending that they cannot build cheaply enough to compete with the controlled apartments, have practically stopped putting up middle...
...quite capture the right girl-to-girl tone. The agency then turned to Peggy Prag, a late-thirtyish creative supervisor who spent six months devising the current approach. Though she found that she could "discuss the vaginal area just like automobiles or detergents" in agency conferences, her own copy clung to euphemisms, at least at first. Market research, including a nationwide survey of 1,200 women, showed that customers care little for the coy approach. As Copywriter Prag puts it: "Women interviewed said, 'Just...