Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rising Pressures. Impatience mounted. In Washington, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright and members of his committee urged Johnson to accept Warsaw and "not quibble about a site." The British grumbled about U.S. "fussing." Johnson clung to his insistence that a site should satisfy four requirements?adequate communications, access for U.S. allies, thorough press coverage, and a "fair" atmosphere for both sides...
...grave at Ap Dong Gi, more than 100 victims were found, all buried alive, all standing, with only the hands and arms of some extending vainly above the ground. ¶ As he clung to safety inside a pagoda, a Buddhist monk heard screams and pleas for mercy as shots rang out nightly during the first two weeks of February. Later, the bodies of 67 victims, including Nguyen Ngoc Ky, leader of the Viet Nam Nationalist Party, were found in 13 nearby graves...
...once an agent himself. Still, says le Carré, the Establishment could not bring itself to suspect Philby's loyalty, even when there was overwhelming evidence against him: "The shaming fact of Philby's continued employment is that S.I.S. quite clearly identified class with loyalty." It clung, says le Carré, to the Establishment tenet that "this Club does not elect traitors, therefore Kim is not a traitor...
...Princeton got the goal and more back in the same period, on tallies by Mike Wiggins at 6:37 and by Terry Peterman at 18:58. Despite heavy Harvard pressure, the Tigers clung to their lead until Ware's goal in the twilight of the second period...
...same. The makeup of his orchestra and its instruments are unchanged. The auditoriums he performs in are virtually the size and shape they always were. Through an epoch of transformations that have touched nearly every human activity, the conductor would seem to be one person who has clung to an accustomed role and function...