Word: clung
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...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
...tall order, mostly because of the scrappy little man who runs the Press from a modern, four-year-old building overlooking Lake Erie. Under Editor Louis Seltzer, 66. the Press overtook the morning Plain Dealer back in 1938 and has clung to its lead. By 1960 the Plain Dealer had cut the lead to a bare 962 copies, but then the Press picked up 80,000 new readers by purchasing the struggling afternoon News. Now the Plain Dealer is gaining once again, and the circulation margin has narrowed from...
...market that has not grown since General Mills entered it. But the real trouble was that British housewives considered the use of Betty's complete mixes a slight of their housewifely duties, felt guilty about not even cracking an egg. They also clung to the dark suspicion that the dried eggs and milk in the mixes were just not as good as the fresh items. They passed up the fancy mixes in favor of either baking their own full-fledged homemade cakes or buying readymade cakes, half of which are the dry, traditional and oh-so-British spongecakes. General...
...atmosphere of violence and vengeance, everyone waited to see whether the dictator who calls himself "Papa Doc" would fall, and in falling bring on another of the blood baths that have marked the small Negro republic's history. In his white Port-au-Prince palace. Duvalier clung to power, guarded by his Tonton Macoute hoodlums. There was sporadic fighting between Duvalier's men and the emboldened opposition, and dark rumors of many deaths. Diplomatically, the arguments turned on the safety of 103 Haitians who had taken asylum at Latin American embassies in the capital, and had not been...
...Sweetness and light" was not the best of phrases even in Victorian times. Besides, Matthew Arnold had borrowed it from Jonathan Swift. But the eminent Victorian poet-critic's oft-quoted formula for mental harmony has clung to his reputation like a sugary burr. Successive generations of collegians, coming upon it in more modern times, have turned away, convinced that Arnold's comments on the world are about as relevant to the tough-minded 20th century as those, say, of Harriet Beecher Stowe...