Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same rouged portraits of Lincoln and Washington clung to the walls, the same brass bell dominated the teacher's desk, the same science case held birds' nests and pickled fish. And in a one-room schoolhouse in the lower Flathead River Valley of northern Montana, Retired Teacher Lucy Blachly, still sharp and saucy at 78, smiled through swells of emotion and apologized to her greying former students-all of whom she remembered by name-for how she had treated them 60 years ago. "I do hope that none of you bears me ill will for being such...
...change was a long time coming. For decades, while the rest of Europe standardized driving on the right, Sweden, like Britain, Ireland and Iceland, clung stubbornly to the left-an arbitrary attitude that dated back to an 18th century royal decree for mail coaches. But despite tradition, Swedes could hardly help noticing that neither their own motoring reflexes nor those of visitors from right-hand countries changed at the border. Foreigners kept getting into dangerous difficulties on Swedish roads, and the travel prone Swedes were getting into too many needless accidents abroad. Besides, driving Swedish cars in Sweden...
What the Pope did was to order a shake-up of the Curia, the Roman Catholic Church's all-powerful governing bureaucracy. New regulations will bring to an end the dominance of a small clique of elderly, ultra-conservative Italian cardinals who have clung to the levers of power for a lifetime and used their position to stifle reform. Now the doors are open to a constant flow of clerics with varied backgrounds and, most important, new ideas...
...Bostonians. They have long clung to the notion that there's something special about the Red Sox. This self-deception is a product of New England provincialism, and has been blown out of proportion by the often unbelievable Boston newspapers...
Even as their sales figures plummeted with last winter's temperatures, optimists among the nation's automakers clung to the prediction that 8,300,000 cars would be sold in the U.S. in 1967. This would make it the third best year in history, after 1965's record 9,300,000 sales and last year's 9,000,000. All that was needed, Detroit figured, was a springtime upturn in sales. This month, with spring in its waning days, something of the sort was finally evident...