Word: clung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economy stays in low gear and inflation remains dormant, further rate drops could keep the bulls running on Wall Street and create another frenzied wave of mortgage refinancing. Before interest rates plunged in recent years, homeowners clung to a rule of thumb that said people should refinance only when rates fell at least two percentage points below the interest on their existing loans. Under that formula, the gains from lower mortgage rates would exceed the closing costs on the refinancing. But today banks and mortgage brokers offer so many refinancing options that canny rate surfers can replace their mortgages...
Larkin made a life's work of offering the unfashionable alternative -- joking about it but meaning it too. His verse, unlike Hughes', was resolutely un-modernist; he clung to the notion that poems should be clearly written in everyday language and should avoid posturing and pretension at all costs -- though, in his hands, that left plenty of room for craft and eloquence. He steered clear of London and the literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when...
...Holland and Lincoln tunnels; some of its members were arrested in the act of mixing the explosives. Officially, though, the sheik's detention had nothing to do with terrorism. Attorney General Janet Reno determined that there was insufficient evidence linking Abdel Rahman to the bomb plots, and she clung to that stand despite reports that the FBI had taped the sheik saying "American blood must be spilled on its own soil." (That, said one of the sheik's allies, was just "Arabic hyperbole -- good Arabic, bad English...
Mere days, then, after finishing my Slavic 101 final, I found myself alone aboard a chairlift on the side of a cheesy hill in central Massachusetts. Rented skis clung tenuously to the plastic-and-foam boots on my feet...
Like the office itself, the pain of an incumbent's defeat has to be immense. A friend of Jimmy Carter's watched him confront the fact he would not be re- elected in 1980 and said, "a part of him died." Jerry Ford clung to his hope for victory into election night, but as always with good politicians there comes a moment when truth confronts them and they accept it. When Ohio slipped out of Ford's grip on that fateful night in 1976, he got up from his chair in front of his television set and said, "That...