Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard came through in the clutch, however. Andy Gellis gave the Crimson a slim 10-9 lead, and the stickmen clung to the margin as time ran out. In the final minute of play, in a man-up situation, Mellen turned a fine pass from Kevin McCall into his fourth goal of the day, and Harvard triumphed...
...rather like a cutter splitting a precious stone, three grandsons of Founder Louis Cartier decided to go their separate ways in the three great capitals of chic, and what they got was an exceedingly lopsided split. Cartier Ltd. in London maintained close ties with Paris' Cartier S.A., which clung to classic haute joaillerie with designs rooted in the 19th century. Cartier Inc. in New York tried to be more responsive to changes in fashion. One resuit: some world-traveling Cartier customers came to regard the New York store as shamefully declasse. Says Socialite Betsy Pickering: "There is no comparison...
...between a chance of survival and certain suicide." That ominous warning from London's conservative Daily Mail was echoed in many Western and African ministries last week. But if Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith got the message, he failed to heed it. Instead, the embattled Smith clung more tenaciously than ever to his minority government (273,000 whites v. 5.8 million blacks). Meanwhile, an economic noose was tightening around the breakaway British colony, and there were ever louder alarms of a debilitating racial war between black-and white-ruled regimes that could engulf southern Africa. The possibility...
Some political analysts have argued that the Communist parties would allow themselves to be voted out of office if and when the electorate rejected their programs. According to this argument, the Communists in Europe have clung to power illegally only when the Soviet army was at the border, ready to enforce a coup with armed might. But there is always the possibility that a Communist government in Western Europe might not need Russian help if it had firm control of the country's police and internal security forces and key segments of the armed forces...
Harvard's Joe Leondis suddenly came alive, popping on a straightaway 20 footer and a bruising drive, as the Crimson clung to a 26-25 lead...