Word: clung
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...unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway I south of town scrambled out of their cars, in time to get away from the 400-yd. stretch of roadway that, already loose, was jogged...
...revenue from Sumatra's exports (oil, tin and rubber), the central government has been forced to issue an emergency decree lowering the legal ratio of gold to paper currency from 20% to 15%. For nearly three months the crumbling Cabinet of hapless Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo has clung to office largely on Sukarno's insistence...
...tried to roll with each blow in the M.C.'s unctuous volley. The first guest was a Utah farmer who reminded Dempsey that they had sparred as boys. Dempsey stared in blank dismay as the man climbed into the ring, then went into a friendly clinch and clung as if for the bell. Next he was asked to recall the maxim his religious mother taught him. "Go to church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin'. Only once...
...Tech clung to a slim lead, until the Crimson finally began hitting as a team. With M.I.T. ahead, 25 to 22, Harvard scored 12 straight points before the Engineers managed two free throws for the half-time 34 to 27 totals. Between them, in the last ten minutes of the half, Barnett and Harrington scored 18 of the Crimson's 26 points...
...desert fighter of World War II, wrote to London's Sunday Times: "Unless I, as a soldier, am grossly at fault in my estimate of Cyprus ... it has none or practically none of the requisites of an efficient military base." Unshaken by this argument, Lennox-Boyd last week clung stubbornly to the line that Cyprus is strategically vital and that self-determination must wait. If Greek Cypriots continued to insist on union with Greece, he said, the "inevitable" result would be partition of Cyprus' 3,572 square miles into Greek and Turkish zones...