Word: clung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Southern Baptists suddenly moving to put the disgraceful past behind them? Some scholars believe the church has reached a point of diminishing returns in attempting to lure more white converts. But so long as the convention, founded in 1845 by die- hard defenders of slavery, clung to its noxious racial theology, it would be hard to evangelize among African Americans, who currently account for about 500,000 of the church's 15.5 million members. "This is very much connected to the Southern Baptists' attempts to reach out to blacks, who share with them a very strong belief in Fundamentalism," says...
...thrashing around on the floor like a fish out of water." Those who could walk staggered up three flights of stairs to the clean, fresh air. Some vomited; others lay rigid. Kennedy emerged, but he couldn't see; the gas had temporarily blinded him. Three young women clung together like small birds in a nest, trembling and crying. Yet they made no sound; the gas had silenced their voices...
Pasolini's difficulty in reconciling his fervent Marxism with his profound sense of spirituality causes the foremost contradiction in his work and one of the few constants throughout his career. Disillusioned with the Communist Party and the Catholic Church, he criticized both. Yet even in criticizing them, he clung to them, commenting on them incessantly in his films. This central conflict generates much of the beauty of his neo-realist-inspired "Mamma Roma...
...tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis and disappointed...
Walsh, who was convicted in April on 41 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy, awaits sentencing next Wednesday. The councillor has clung to his city council seat, despite other councillors' calls for his resignation...