Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quang Tri city. For four days their procession down sun-baked Highway 1 continued to swell. There were soldiers on foot wearing only mud-caked underwear and with rags wrapped around their feet in place of boots. Some rode on the fenders of cars commandeered at rifle point; others clung to army trucks that careered through South Viet Nam's northern countryside with lights ablaze at midday and horns blaring. The line stretched to the horizon, and so did its litter: helmets, full ammunition pouches, combat boots, web belts and packs. At the refugee-jammed city...
...Reform approach seemed sterile to some Jews, who in the late 19th century began to turn to a compromise between Reform and Orthodoxy known in the U.S. as CONSERVATIVE Judaism. At the same time, waves of Eastern European Jews, some of whom clung to their Old World Orthodoxy, were emigrating to the U.S. But not until the rise of Nazism in Europe did yet another group of Orthodox Jews arrive in the U.S.-the followers of HASIDISM, a movement of mystical enthusiasm that sprang up in Eastern Europe in the 18th century. Among them were the Satmar Hasidim, named after...
STANLEY KUBRICK is a more lamentable and interesting case. Throughout his career, he has circumvented the show-biz celebrity that a Bogdanovich begs for. From his early experimental failures through his experimental success--2001--he has clung to his artistic ideals, making relevant and innovative films, while commanding big-studio budgets. No other American director has matched his consistency. John Ford palmed off three sentimental pot-boilers for every gritty piece of goods he managed; for long stretches Huston went for cash alone, and then stopped caring at all; soreheads Welles and Peckinpah get fired often. Kubrick, however...
...wrestled well," Blakinger said, "but I clung too closely to him. I should have let him escape that one time, but I fought it and got caught in a near-pin by a hip roll...
Only Chou. In the nervous Middle East, Israel's Prime Minister Golda Meir and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat clung to a precarious cease-fire and flirted warily with proposals to ease tensions, while talking as pugnaciously as ever. Whatever the merits of their long-range goals, Pakistan's President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan (now deposed) and India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi brought more suffering to the subcontinent, he by turning his troops loose in a murderous rampage against rebellious Bengalis in East Pakistan...