Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Violence clung to the IWW; its members wore the scars inflicted by the self-righteous brutality of vigilantes. Repression and cruelty were an unavoidable part of the IWW's burden, a load that Joe Hill helped to bear. Widerberg avoids this facet of his story until the film's historical pretense forces the issue. Obliged to include such a mob action scene in the San Diego sequence, he skims over the ugliness and jolts the camera so that most of the clubbing doesn't show. Either from disinterest or squeamishness he is unwilling to deal with Joe's life...
...Radcliffe have tried every method from voting to massive disruptive demonstrations to make it clear to the Faculty and the Administration that they want no part of the CRR or the Resolution which spawned it. And for two years, the Faculty and Administration have ignored these indications and clung to the hope that, if only the correct technical formula can be found, the student body can be induced to swallow...
...international Synod of Bishops went into its final days in Rome last week, some Catholics still clung to the hope that it would somehow prove a dramatic sequel to the Second Vatican Council. Close by the Vatican's new audience hall, where the prelates conferred in splendid isolation, liberals who wanted definitive reforms manned command posts and held daily press briefings. Those who think Pope Paul is not traditional enough pressed for a more conservative line. Members of the right wing's yippie element lobbied in their own way by sloshing paint on the coats of arms...
...local league's coaches and managers met, decided she must quit, and that the two games in which she played must be erased from the records. Publicly, they clung to the technicality that Sharon had not properly tried out for the team and thus was ineligible to play, but privately they conceded that they did not want their sons competing with a girl. They also dismissed Sciuto as president of the league. Confused but not embittered by the fuss, Sharon said she had been treated "just like one of the boys" until the parents began "squawking." Said...
Mafia Leader Joseph Colombo Sr., shot during an Italian-American Unity Day rally in Manhattan (TIME, July 12), clung to life through a third week. Meanwhile, the investigation into the attempted murder continues. No one apparently saw, or is willing to admit he saw, the gunman who killed the would-be assassin, Jerome Johnson, with three shots, even as police swarmed around him. Significantly, however, many did see what Colombo's bodyguards were doing in the seconds immediately prior to and after their boss was shot...