Word: clung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast to the Chinese, who clung to the belief in their own cultural superiority despite repeated European humiliations, the Japanese decided early to learn the barbarians' ways. They sent inquiring envoys abroad and hired many foreign experts. Some of the lessons were basic. The Meiji rulers abolished feudalism in 1871, and all fiefs reverted to the Emperor. The samurai, warriors who had formed a ruling caste under the shogunate, were pensioned off. They were forbidden to carry swords or even to wear their traditional topknots. When the samurai rose in revolt, they were suppressed by new armies of conscripts...
...never been so mad at anyone in his life. Glenn says he never thought he would hear himself talk to a President that way. "It hurt the country," one of the men who tried to persuade him remembers. "Glenn's stand was always principled, but he clung to an issue that was not transcendental." For their part, admirers viewed Glenn's holdout as proof that he will not take refuge in a popular political position...
...products, firms need skilled work forces able to adapt rapidly to changing customer needs. Instead of sharpening workers' skills, Reich says, many big companies have laid off employees in the U.S. and set up assembly lines overseas. Rather than push hard for retraining, most blue-collar unions have clung to rigid job classifications and inefficient work rules...
...tinge of racism that clung to the primary battle has raised nervous speculation about the city's chances. The weekend before the election, Cook County Democratic Chairman Edward R. Vrdolyak allegedly announced to white precinct leaders on the city's Northwest side that the primary had become "a racial thing" and contended that it was a battle between Byrne and Washington. "I'm calling on you to save your city, to save your precinct," he was quoted as saying. Nor had the Democratic organization rallied around Washington, mainly because of opposition in many of the city's white neighborhoods...
...cosmic consciousness," he wrote in an essay on life after death, comparing the process of dying to "the flow of a river into the ocean." Summoning the rhetorical powers of his youth, the elderly writer foresaw the end. The river, he wrote, "has been freed of the mud-that clung to it, and regained its transparency. It has become identified with the sea, spread over it, omnipresent, every drop catching a spark of the sun. The curtain has not fallen; it has been raised." Ironically, after a lifetime of earthly visions, it was that glowing picture of an afterlife that...