Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FROM the very outset of the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris four months ago, the main obstacle to progress has been the issue of the continued bombing of part of North Viet Nam. Hanoi's representatives have adamantly clung to their long-held demand that the U.S. must stop bombing their territory before anything else can be discussed. The U.S. has persistently and unsuccessfully asked for assurances that Hanoi will reciprocate with some kind of de-escalation of its own once the bombing is stopped. No such assurances have been forthcoming. The result is that the talks have...
East of the town, the Viet Cong tenaciously clung to a stretch of strategic road that could be used as an approach to Saigon. The Viet Cong fought mechanized U.S. troops to a standstill for three days. So furious was the fighting that the Americans burned out barrel after barrel of their .50-caliber ma chine guns...
...furor over soaring rents involves only one-third of New York's 2,100,000 privately owned apartments. The rest remain subject to rent control, to which New York (alone among major U.S. cities) has clung since World War II. Landlords of rent-controlled apartments are every bit as unhappy as tenants of uncontrolled units. Squeezed by rising costs for taxes, labor, maintenance and anti-pollution equipment demanded by the city, increasing numbers of owners are simply abandoning structurally sound, though rundown, controlled buildings. By owners' estimates, some 12,000 buildings containing 350,000 apartments have thus been...
Michigan, under Governor George Romney, and Ohio, under Governor James Rhodes, were subject to raiding by Nixon. But the gains to be made there were not worth the cost of antagonizing their powerful leaders, who clung to their status as favorite sons. Romney was apparently prepared to hold out indefinitely. Rhodes, who had been generally regarded as eager to be in line with the winner, remained surprisingly stubborn. Not so secretly, he wanted a Rockefeller-Reagan ticket as the strongest draw in Ohio and, despite a well-earned reputation for sagacity, held out some hope for its success...
Thank God for the straight people (the majority of the 1968 graduating class) who will provide the stable hinges to which our society has always clung...