Word: clung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little headway against the campaign-fund charge. It has been his contention all along that seven testimonial social functions held for his benefit between 1961 and 1965 yielded personal, tax-free gifts for use at his discretion, not campaign contributions that had to be spent for political purposes. Dodd clung to his story, conceding only that he spent just $3,100 out of other contributions, again by error rather than design. But Stennis and Utah's Wallace Bennett, the ranking Republican on the ethics committee, repeatedly lacerated his arguments, some of which glossed over a stipulation of facts agreed...
During the summer, Cambridge was stripped of the shield to which it had clung so many years--the veto. A new DPW commissioner, Francis W. Sargeant, went to Beacon Hill determined to get rid of the veto. And he did. Sargeant has become known in the Boston press, as an effective "salesman," and his meteoric rise in politics (he left the DPW in the summer of 1966 to run for Lieutenant Governor, won his race, and is now seriously mentioned as a possible candidate for Governor in 1970) is often attributed to his personable, but persistent approach...
Although the moon has lately been giving up many of its ancient secrets to prying spacecraft, it has clung stubbornly to one-the genesis of its own existence as an earth satellite. With monotonous regularity, scientists have punched holes in theories that the moon was torn, Eve-like, from the earth's side; that the earth and moon condensed simultaneously, as neighbors, from the same blob of primordial dust; or that the moon was a planetary interloper accidentally captured by the earth's gravity. Says Nobel Laureate Chemist Harold Urey: "All explanations for the origin of the moon...
Passengers and crewmen threw themselves into the sea. Only a few had life jackets; the others clung to debris or quickly drowned. Within 15 minutes, the Heraklion sank, taking the captain with...
Defenseman Bob Carr picked up a blocked shot by Harvard wing Chip Otness and let fly from the face-off circle to Went's left. The shot clung to the ice and caught the lower left corner of the cage...