Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Vanguard fought against the Armada, twelve Royal Navy ships have borne the name. And Vanguard herself seemed to have an apprehension about where she was headed. In Portsmouth harbor she slipped away from four tugs, slewed around sharply and ran bow up on a mudbank, where she clung so stubbornly that it took an hour to get her off and on her way to the junk heap again...
...During his trial he insisted that his name was Jacques Mornard, and claimed to be a Belgian Communist who had supported Trotsky in his bitter feud with Stalin. Why, then, had he killed him? Because he had become disillusioned with his onetime idol. Sentenced to 20 years, the prisoner clung stubbornly to his story, even though Mexican authorities were able to prove he was actually a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader, a convinced Communist who fought on the Loyalists' side in the Spanish Civil War, was later enrolled in the Soviet NKVD, and eventually reached Mexico...
Syngman Rhee had clung to power too stubbornly and manipulated Korea's constitution to his own advantage too often for anyone to be very impressed by his mere promise "to correct the mistakes of the past." At week's end Rhee made his first trip out of the palace since the riots, to pay a tearful hospital call on some of the wounded students. The crowds that had always applauded him in the past now stared in stolid silence...
Slogging toward the front during the third battle of Ypres in 1916, Gilford Dudley Seymour was, as he remembers it, the "youngest, tallest and scaredest" soldier in the Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles. But 17-year-old Private Seymour clung to duty, and duty was delivering his company's rum tot in two glazed-crockery jugs. The officer who was supposed to get the rum turned out to be dead, so Seymour buried the crocks where a hedge crossed a trench...
...really took Labor's downfall to launch the new Australia. Long after the war ended, the Labor government clung to irksome wartime economic controls and rationing. In 1949, Labor even introduced a bill to nationalize the country's banks...