Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour came and went and nothing happened. Some reporters wandered about the palace while others went out into the beautiful Elysée garden, which was covered with rich green umbrellas of chestnut trees in the final dazzle of bloom. A light, misty rain coated the grass and clung to the dark blue jackets of the Garde Républicaine. At 6:30, loudspeakers crackled that the two men would appear at 7. British journalists began to fret about some unexpected "difficulty." A French correspondent grumbled: "The general was always on time, even when he said...
...playing out with the inevitability of Greek theater. Again a chorus of dissenters in the Washington spring, again the President before reporters and television cameras, explaining, in the tenth year of the Viet Nam War, that he could not be moved by demonstrators' passions. Both sides, as always, clung to their own higher logic-the protesters to the rights of humanity beyond all political or even practical considerations, the President to his responsibilities to a larger design for peace ("Not just for us, but for our children, their children"). But for all the ritual quality of both the demonstrations...
Heading into the showdown Senate vote on the SST, proponents clung to a single hope, wispy as a contrail, of keeping the aircraft from crashing. Their head count showed 49 Senators against the plane, 47 for it, two absent and two wavering: Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. If Richard Nixon could land those two Republicans, the SST might yet take off. Vice President Spiro Agnew stood ready to cast a tie-breaking vote to continue the aircraft's funding...
...long as five years taking courses in three "divisions"-the first stressing techniques of advanced learning, the second concentrating on one or more disciplines, the third consisting of an independent study project. The only requirements are one term in "human development," ranging from sexual roles to the I Clung, plus another in "language and communication," a rubric for topics from grammar to the possibilities of "extraterrestrial intelligence...
...main South Vietnamese force of 10,000 troops and 100 tanks and armored personnel carriers sat immobile barely 15 miles inside Laos on jungle-bordered Route 9. Out on the flanks, where elite airborne and ranger units clung to rugged hilltop fire bases, Communist toops launched a series of furious assaults. First blood was drawn at an outpost about 14 miles inside Laos, where the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) 39th Ranger battalion held out valiantly against a North Vietnamese force of regimental strength for three days before abandoning its positions. By the time the survivors...