Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point, a Haitian immigrant named Jean-Louis Andre Yvon, 33, turned unwittingly onto Dorchester Street. Some 35 people surrounded Yvon's car, smashed his windshield and pulled him out. Someone shouted, "Get the nigger!" Yvon fled for the porch of a nearby house and clung to the railing as youths battered him with clubs. Only after a white policeman drew his pistol and fired some warning shots was a dazed and bleeding Yvon finally rescued. "He would have been dead if I hadn't fired," the policeman said later...
...Harvard and Radcliffe educations are the same except for the name on the diploma," one Harvard dean said smugly after coeducational classes had been initiated. But in 1962 Radcliffe women began to receive Harvard degrees, though Harvard clung to separate commencements for another eight years...
...have received ready to print. These duplicates are methodically processed-and then thrown away. The New York local also enforced contract rules forbidding employers to transfer printers from one kind of composing room task to another; thus Linotypists might sit idly while work piled up on proofreaders. Printers also clung to "manning" rules', in which the union and not management determined the number of men required by their machines...
...would have wanted it said, I believe, that she well knew the pressures of pride and vanity, the sting of bitterness and defeat, the gray days of national peril and personal anguish. But she clung to the confident expectation that men could fashion their own tomorrows if they could only learn that yesterday can be neither relived nor revised...
...that 200 years of growth have made this impossible. Men of modern power perhaps can be nothing else, so exigent and awesome are the demands upon them. Yet our best Presidents have clung to small pleasures that tied them to the ground and their fellow citizens. Lincoln told stories. Theodore Roosevelt relished the outdoors. His cousin Franklin collected stamps and ship models. Truman devoured biographies. Perhaps the last President not consumed by power was Dwight Eisenhower, who found something special in painting, fishing a quiet trout stream or being on the golf course. Some doubt his legislative contributions...