Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marital break did not come at once. The first thriller, Call for the Dead, based on the German connection, and A Murder of Quality, with its Etonian background, convinced critics that Le Carré was a real writer, not a civil service dilettante. But the books sold modestly; David Cornwell clung to his true identity and his salary. Upon the publication of his third book, the novelist instructed his accountant to wire in the unlikely event that his bank account reached £20,000. At the time, Cornwell was the father of three growing boys; the magic figure was what...
...lesson the ebullient Cerf never learned - and writers by the score knew it. They flocked and clung to him instinctively, sensing correctly that they had found in him that rare creature, a publisher who was not only sympathetic to authors but found it in his heart to like them as well...
...customs of stardom clung to her even after death. In the obituaries of Joan Crawford, who died of a heart attack last week, some newspapers felt compelled to note a certain confusion about her age. Officially it was listed as 69, but she may have been several years older. It was characteristic of her that at a time of life when two or three years no longer make any difference to most people, Joan Crawford insisted on the smallest believable number...
False Premise. Amid all the misstatements and warped points of view, even on such irrelevant matters as his role in Eisenhower's dumping of Aide Sherman Adams (see box), Nixon clung to the false legal premise that a crime is not really a crime if the motive is pure. He insisted he had committed no crime or impeachable act. Yet unconsciously, he actually admitted the latter. "As the one with the chief responsibility for seeing that the laws of the United States are enforced, I did not meet that responsibility," he conceded. That very failure...
Pakistan's Prime Minister clung desperately to power last week, firmly convinced that his own time to fade had not yet come. But Bhutto's troubled and unhappy nation was plunged into its worst political crisis since the 1971 civil war, which ended in the breakaway of its eastern sector to become the independent country of Bangladesh...