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Back at the prison, Henderson, a man who owns 23,000 acres of Texas cattle and oil land and believes himself worth approximately half a million dollars, clung stubbornly to his old theory that young Franks was made of worthwhile stuff...
...went no further. Under a continual barrage of questions from the committee and its counsel, Frank Tavener, Furry clung to his privilege to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution...
...Opposed to Plato's philosophy and the Greek search for philosophic wisdom, the Jewish Pharisees clung to a law of stern, ritual purity. Each tradition, in Bruckberger's view, was deficient. But broken, then united by Christ's love, they merged to give Christianity both its traditional faith and its abstract philosophy...
...this way, the Houses clung to their passivity, the sometime-abortive zeal of a useless competition to recruit would...
...winning more borrowed time-but the only real opportunity of escape lay with the Rosenbergs themselves. If they broke their long silence-if they confessed the secrets of their spy ring-then the President might consider a new appeal for clemency. But up to now the Rosenbergs have clung to their dark secrets, have shown no flicker of regret...