Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 300,000 exuberant, cheering Egyptians lined the seven-mile route as the two Presidents rode in an open limousine to Cairo. They perched atop walls, perilously packed balconies, clung to lampposts, balanced from bus windows and roof ledges. Bands of white-turbaned men wearing flowing blue galabias played primitive reed flutes in Nixon's honor. American flags fluttered, and the sky rained red, white and blue confetti. Amid the ubiquitous (if unflattering to Nixon) portraits of the two Presidents, signs in Arabic and English blossomed and bobbed: WE TRUST NIXON. GOD BLESS NIXON. KEEP IT UP, NIXON...
...Evans said that he felt "like a football fan cheering on the home team. I think the President threw a touchdown pass." The Richmond (Va.) News Leader exulted: "This is an immensely happy development. For the first time, those who want to support the President?those who have clung to vestiges of hope that he was not involved?have something tangible...
...regime. After six years in Hungarian prisons and a brief period under house arrest, he lived for 15 years in the U.S. legation in Budapest, where he had taken refuge during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. During all that time and while he was exiled in Vienna after 1971 Mindszenty clung prodly to his titles of Archibishop of Esztergom, an ancient see that includes Budapest, and Primate (first bishop) of the Hungarian hierarchy. Last week Pope Paul did what the Communists could not and removed the stubborn, 81 -year-old hero from office...
Emitting a couple of uninhibited shrieks, Mrs. Mark Phillips clung to the toboggan her husband was expertly maneuvering down the fast hill. Having arrived safely at the bottom, Princess Anne regained her composure as she and Mark mingled with the guests at a winter-games party thrown in their honor by Canadian Governor General Jules Leger at Ottawa's Governmenl House. Obviously enjoying their second official visit abroad together, the Phillipses even made a little history. Where Anne dropped the puck at a hockey game in Hull, Quebec, it marked the first royal visit to the French Canadian province...
There was little ennobling in the broad shape of human affairs in 1973. Mankind progressed haltingly, if at all, in its tortuous quest for greater wisdom in the conduct of international relations and greater brotherhood among individuals. The U.S. continued to improve relations with China and clung to a strained detente with the Soviet Union. But political sentiments elsewhere still were expressed in the blood language of terrorist bombs and bullets, from Belfast to Madrid, Rome to Khartoum. Once more men died in battles on the hot sands of the Sinai and in the barren Golan Heights. The first freely...