Word: clung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yesterday's Crimson poll, Hyman led the presidential race with 22.3 percent of the vote and Rawlins clung to a seven-point lead over Tally Zingher '99, her closest competitor for vice-president...
...Nazi Germany and the heritage of the Confederacy and its rebel flag. The Confederacy's struggle to preserve the "peculiar institution" of slavery was an attempt to resist the democratic ideals sweeping the Western world. While other enlightened nations were rejecting the barbarity of human bondage, the South still clung to the remnants of a shameful past. Likewise, Nazi Germany's visions of world conquest and racial purity were a return to the savageness of the Dark Ages...
...futuristic world where reality and imagination are blurred, this piece sent out several mixed, but still fascinating, messages. At one point, the dancers, clad in shabby and torn leotards, appeared to be fighting against becoming machines and trying desperately to retain their humaness. At another point, two dancers clung to each other in a dramatic revelation of love, while animalistic squaks and growls played over the loudspeakers...
WHEN THE PHONE CALLS CAME, THE Voice was low and menacing, the messages cruel. I've cut out Amy's tongue. Sometimes Susan Billig clung to the line, pleading for news of her daughter who had disappeared in 1974 at the age of 17. Amy will be sold off at a livestock auction. At other times, the mother hung up. But the connection was never really severed. You know who this is. Whether the calls came seven times in a night or once in several months, the Voice haunted Billig every hour of every day for nearly 22 years, jolting...
...travails--and the travels--were forgotten the moment they had Rebecca in their arms. "When the woman from the orphanage handed her over," Smolowe recalls, "Rebecca clung to me and never looked back...