Word: clung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...11th-ranked Blue Devils (18-4) clung to a 46-35 halftime lead. before dominating in the second half, outshooting the Crimson, 59 to 24 percent. For the game, Duke hit 56 percent of its shots, while the Crimson sank 29 percent...
...tributes and then dozens of tiny, human gestures of thanks. The Notre Dame football team, voted the national champion, came by and left Reagan the blue-and-gold letter sweater of George Gipp. Suddenly make-believe was real; the latter-day Gipper finally had the authentic article, and he clung to it reverently as the team departed. The apt gift touched him almost as much as anything that happened in the parting...
...though the national conceit puts the presidency at the center of our political solar system, no President can shine so brightly that every shadow disappears. Reagan's failure was to deny frequently that the shadows existed. While incumbency rounded out some of his early one-dimensional ideas, Reagan clung tenaciously to his phobias concerning Government intervention and federal taxes. Even Bush has had to acknowledge that Washington must act more vigorously in some areas, but Reagan to the end fought that reality. In one of his several farewell talks, he compared advocacy of government activism to "a false determinism ((that...
...triumphs, there have inevitably been controversies and defeats. One of the most striking was the five-year battle over 100 Central Park South, a dignified prewar apartment building that Trump decided in 1981 to demolish and replace. To do that, he had to get rid of tenants who clung to 50 rent-controlled apartments that cost them as little as $300 a month. Trump brought in a new management company renowned for its ferocity. Out went the lobby furniture, unrepaired went the broken elevator, unpainted and uncleaned the halls and stairways. Eviction notices proliferated. The tenants hired legal help, charging...
Exactly two minutes later, Bourbeau passed the puck to Pete Ciavaglia in front of the net. The puck clung to Ciavaglia's stick like Crazy Glue, but the sophomore had no problem back-handing his shot into the net to give Harvard a 3-0 lead...