Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly everyone but Red Boss Enver Hoxha, who has desperately clung to power for 20 years, life in tiny Albania can be brutish, nasty and short. Fourteen concentration camps and a dozen jails are jammed with an estimated 30,000 prisoners-nearly 2% of the total population. The secret police favor such refinements as thumbscrews and electric cages, in which the current is gradually built up in walls and floor while the victim dances in agony...
...When the Sudanese were granted autonomy from France in 1958, they sought to solve their economic problems by joining neighboring and more prosperous Senegal in the Mali Federation. But eight months ago, the Senegalese, fearful of Sudanese domination, seceded from the federation; they also refused the Sudanese (who stubbornly clung to the name Mali) further access to Senegal's great, modern port of Dakar. With no outlet to the sea and nothing to sell on world markets save peanuts, kapok and a little rice and dried fish, Mali's Premier Mobido Keita turned to the increasingly popular game...
...roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot them if Lumumba should die in his Katanga jail; Gizenga now was getting regular arms shipments from Cairo, trucked in overland via the Sudan. To the south, Lumumbaman Anicet Kashamura clung to Kivu province, where his troops stole cars and gasoline from white businessmen. Eight hapless Belgian soldiers, captured after they had wandered across the border from the protectorate of Ruanda-Urundi, were forced to kneel and submit to public beating...
Main Stream & Footnotes. With impressive endurance, both network staffs clung to the story through dawn and into daylight, remaining well made up and coherent, with Cronkite growing ever more debonair as fatigue mounted all about him. CBS finally quit at 7 a.m., continuing spot coverage an hour later, while NBC stuck it out until 7:30. By then, Brinkley grandly and unilaterally announced Kennedy's election ("NBC has just awarded him California"), and Dave Garroway, NBC's regular morning glory, took over...
...bearing gifts: olives and peaches in Red Bluff, a jug of water in Dunsmuir, a camellia plant in Sacramento (earlier in the week there were Shoshoni war bonnets in Pocatello). And in Roseville the surprise package was California's Governor Pat Brown, who had joined the trackside audience, clung to the rear-platform railing when the train started off unexpectedly, was finally hauled aboard by Kennedy...