Word: clung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special interests for the benefit of the ordinary voter, Reagan hopes to re-establish the G.O.P. as the majority party for the first time in more than half a century. Optimistic Republican strategists believe they can finally rid the party of the country-club conservative label that has clung to it since the days of Coolidge and Hoover. "The President has in his hands the weapon with which to forever dismantle the New Deal coalition," exults New Right Strategist Richard Viguerie...
...Harvard sent 13 men to the plate in a seven run fourth inning and suddenly OSU clung to a one-run margin. The Beavers soon forged ahead again with five more runs, and the Crimson's three run rally in the bottom of the sixth wasn't enough. The umpires enforced the time limit to end the game an inning early...
...wander around town by themselves after classes. She forbade Olga to wear tight jeans and bright tops like the other girls. During vacations, she kept Olga from playing with the children of Cambridge acquaintances. Says Fay Black, then a part-time teacher at Olga's school: "Her mother clung to her like a warden to a prisoner. The child's only hope was to go back to school...
Looking tanned and relaxed after a postelection vacation in the Virgin Islands, Ferraro told the enthusiastic audience of 1,300 that she rejected the popular perception that the Democratic ticket lost because it clung to the gospel of Big Government. "Read the speeches," she said. "We didn't call for massive new federal jobs programs, but for more responsible monetary, fiscal and trade policies to promote and strengthen the private sector." In the course of her half-hour address, Ferraro spelled out her vision of the party's future. Some excerpts...
...others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions prevented the gas from dissipating, as it would have done during...