Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Glendale brandishing a baseball bat, certain that a burglar was ransacking the rooms below. Twelve days overdue in her pregnancy, a woman near the quake's center knew only that labor had finally begun. At a 24-hour supermarket in the town of San Fernando, Clerk Marty Federico clung to a metal rail until the awful vibrations stopped, then reeled as two gas pipes exploded. Federico thought at first that a jet aircraft had set off a sonic boom directly overhead, then that Los Angeles was absorbing the ultimate nuclear attack...
Warred one for Right, and one for Wrong? So be it; but they both were young-Each grape to his cluster clung, All their elegies are sung. and this...
...general, U.S. museums do not just reflect art history. They program and write it through their selections, their "theme shows" and their imprimatur. But Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with dedication if not full impartiality, has clung to the principle of a survey-not declaring where it thinks artists are supposed to go but where they are actually going. In the present show, devoted this year to sculpture, there are 99 artists showing one work apiece, and it is simply intended to provide a survey of American sculpture as it now stands...
Some were miraculously spared. Modan Modan Shaha, 18, clung to a bamboo pole and was swept 26 miles to safety. Several survivors held tenaciously to the tails of terrified cattle. Six children were washed ashore in a wooden chest; they had been thrown into it by their grandfather, but he perished and the tiny ark bobbed precariously in the Bay of Bengal for three days...
Bertolt Brecht and living with an East Berlin family. According to his father, young Huessy was "positively impressed" with the regime, but he also clung to his faith in the U.S. Shortly before his arrest, he wrote to his parents: "How can I explain to these people that even though I agree with all their criticism of the American system, the Viet Nam War and racism, that there is still something about America which gives it more potential than any system I know...