Word: clung
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...night long the furies of wind and sea pounded the yacht while Claude clung desperately to a spar. Before dawn the ship's cook went mad and drowned himself. At daybreak three sailors had succeeded in swimming ashore. The last aboard the yacht, Freddy and Claude, both good swimmers, finally decided to chance it. Side by side they dived into the water. Freddy was within two yards of the beach when he looked back and saw his pretty wife in trouble. While Morocco tribesmen shouted from the beach, the playboy-millionaire turned seaward once again. The effort...
Four independent candidates running for City Council clung to their places among the first nine, and combined with two other independents still running strong, threatened to displace the Council majority led by the "good government" group--the Cambridge Civic Association...
...high-school swains discovered a ghost last spring. As they explained darkly to their giggling dates, the ghost was a little girl. She had been hurrying home from the playground when she was hit by an automobile coming down Strasburg Avenue. For a few moments, the little girl clung desperately to the car, rapping on the fender. The driver heartlessly drove on. Then the little girl lost her grip and was crushed beneath a rear wheel...
Crisis Mounts. Few Britons, Conservative or Socialist, shared the Express' mood of jubilee. But practically all agreed that Tory chances for a return to power were good. Since the close vote of 1950, Labor has clung to office by a fingernail parliamentary majority (at one time as narrow as three). For months, Attlee and his ministers have been watching the gathering clouds of a new economic crisis. The old demon, the dollar gap, is back. The coal mines cannot supply the demand for fuel. Electric power shortages are developing. Millions of Britons face another dreary winter of insufficient coal...
...talking about tacit assumption, basic attitudes of so deep a level that they themselves are often not aware. But what they are aware of is that many of the concepts to which we older persons clung are to them irrelevant, irrelevant and irritating...