Word: clung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country estate, swimming pool and well-protected play area as proof of their parental fitness. Yet it was Katrina, at 15 months all blond ringlets and neatly pressed ruffles, who spoke most eloquently on their behalf. Waking up in time to accompany the woman to the witness stand, Katrina clung hungrily to her side, cooing "Mama...
...made the saves he had to make," Proulx said after the game. Blair "had to make" 40 saves, because he clung to a one-goal edge until Dave Connors's open-net tally with 13 seconds left made the final score...
...wheezing "Forward, Memphis!" to its dying day.) Circulation fell from 127,000 in 1973 to "less than 80,000" this year. Downtown itself was turned into a mall to compete with suburban malls-the same kind of desperate and characterless rearrangement happening all over the country-and still suburbanites clung to the perception of a ubiquitous downtown scene as one in which a man with a wallet is being chased by a man with a brick. Landmark buildings began to disappear, as did, the other day, an old newspaper...
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER doesn't come quickly: It look the Allies five long years to defeat the Nazis. Senator Joe McCarthy lasted almost as long before getting the boot. Vietnam dragged on--and on--for a decade. And the Watergate crowd clung gamely to the reins of control until they were ousted three years after the investigation of their activities began. But in some places, the concept of even grudging positive change doesn't seem to exist...
Accustomed to being a minority sect, the Druze have always clung to habits of secrecy. But some aspects of their doctrine are publicly known: affirming "the essential unity of all things and beings," the Druze hold that God is a single entity and that men pass through a series of lives, constantly moving toward perfection. They also believe that only a fixed number of places are reserved for them in paradise. Upon death, therefore, every worthy Druze is said to be reborn as another Druze; for the same reason, converts are not accepted and intermarriage is not encouraged. The Druze...