Word: clung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only score of the night came just 26 seconds into the game, when Kurt Kleinendorst flipped the Friars' first shot on goal past Weicker. The shot, off a Steve Anderson centering pass from the corner, gave Proulx the one-goal lead he clung to for the remaining...
...there he was Saturday, forsaking the nomad's life to rob the Bulldogs on their few good chances. At the game's midway point, Eli right wing Sean Neely raced down the middle with the puck: Blair stayed put and Neely shot wide Five minutes later, he stead-fastly clung to the goal post to deny Yale's leading scorer. Bob Brooke, the near side shot And halfway through the final stanza, he made a sprawling save on winger George Minowada, a play both coaches talked about after the game...
...Administration has clung to this bargaining position, even though it is widely viewed by arms experts as inherently unacceptable to the Soviet Union. The proposal is unreasonable, they say, not only because the U.S.S.R. would have to dismantle missiles already deployed while the U.S. makes only paper reductions, but also because French and British missiles would not be affected. France is not part of the NATO military alliance and maintains an independent arsenal of 98 intermediate-range missiles, most of them trained on the Soviet Union; Britain, though a member of the alliance, also has its own force...
With seven minutes left in the game, the cagers held a 51-36 advantage over the hapless. Big Red, but when the final buzzer sounded Harvard clung to a tenuous 51-50 edge...
...order to stimulate the economy. The idea horrified not only his economists (Martin Feldstein, his chief economic adviser, calculated it would add $14 billion to the fiscal 1983 deficit) but his political aides, who knew that it would be next to impossible to sell to Congress. Nonetheless, Reagan clung to the idea for almost a month. He finally abandoned it last week after Republican congressional leaders told him that he would have to fight hard to keep the 10% cut from being reduced or pushed back, much less speeded up. Reagan's obstinacy on other budget matters, however, bred frustration...