Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard and Radcliffe education are the same except for the name on the diploma," one Harvard dean said smugly after coeducational classes were initiated. But in 1962, Radcliffe women began to receive Harvard degrees, although Harvard clung to separate commencements for another eight years...
Fairy Tale recounted, briefly but tortuously, the adventures of some mountaineers who lived in a region of the Ozarks called Poop's Peak. "From generation to generation," went an all too typical passage, "the Poopers had zealously clung to the truths which made them free. Namely, snoozing and boozing ... The Poopers were congenital shiners of moon, which is to say, hootch hustlers, which is to say, distillers of illegal whisky." When one of them, young Jake Kertuffel, was sent into town to trade in the family jalopy on a new car, he was swindled into accepting a pile...
...central issue in the bargaining will be automation, particularly in the composing room. "We have to have it," insists Times Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger. While many papers elsewhere have clung to life and profits by modernizing technical operations, Bertram Powers, president of Typographical Union No. 6, has forced the New York dailies to retain archaic machinery and procedures. Automation would allow the Times, for one thing, to phase out Linotype machines (a 19th century invention) and install computers that can set type directly from edited copy. Such moves have been anathema to the printers in the past. Ten years...
...been has strong ends. But, Big Labor had sunk most of its money into the Muskie campaign and when Muskie folded after Flonda and Wisconsin became wary of spending any more of its resources in the unpredictable prodigal primary run.Throughout election night in Ohio and into the dawn McGovern clung to his lead. But, then the returns from Cleveland began to come...
Without Duvachelle, the Crimson offensive production would have been pretty paltry. His first touchdown sent the Crimson into a 7-0 lead midway through the first quarter, after the Jumbos had clung to a scoreless tie, with some ferocious tackling and quickness that was beating their Harvard counterparts. With the ball on the Tufts' 21. Duvachelle swept right, cut back against the flow and then sprinted down the left sideline for the score. Steve Eyen's conversion ran the score to seven...