Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elsewhere in the league, Brown brought down Holy Cross in a convincing come-from-behind victory, and Dartmouth clung to its Ivy title hopes by extinguishing Cornell, leaving a total of four teams in serious contention for this year's honors...
...Viet Nam had divided the country and destroyed Johnson. Still, Humphrey clung to his mentor-and tormentor. Even in seeking the presidency on his own, he could not cut the cord. Fearful that a public attack by Johnson would destroy him with old-line Democrats and ensure his defeat, Humphrey failed to point the country toward a direction he knew it should go. Only late in his campaign did he step gingerly away from Johnson; when he did, his campaign surged. But it was too late...
Meanwhile, Canfield, growing increasingly tired of his boring, upper crust wife (who Agnew writes comes from "North Philadelphia," which happens to be that city's largest black ghetto), falls for Meredith Lord, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Lord, who is beautiful as well as political ("The cloth clung to and outlined her shapely legs with every sinuous stride"), is interested in Canfield not only for his aristocratic good looks but because he can help her obtain funding for her pet program, a medical-aid bill known as THC (Total Health Care...
...corporations, the mass political party, local self-government-through which to control dangerous impulses and channel constructive ones. Today there are virtually no institutions left to invent: crime increases in spite of police, prisons, and public and private government. For a long time, and to our great disadvantage, we clung to the myth that there was a bureaucratic or governmental alternative to familial and communal virtue, that what parents, neighbors, and friends had failed to do, patrolmen, wardens, counselors and psychiatrists could provide. We struggled to maintain the hope that the police and schools could prevent crime and that prisons...
...this new climate, the largest agencies generally have managed to maintain their relative shares of client dollars; J. Walter Thompson, the doyen of the agency business, clung to its No. 1 position last year with $900 million in worldwide billings, followed by aggressive Young & Rubicam with $800 million and McCann-Erickson with $775 million. But in an era of uncertainty, even Thompson's primacy is no longer as secure as it once was. The agency now ranks second behind Y & R in U.S. billings and second to McCann-Erickson in foreign volume, though ahead of both in combined...