Word: clung
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Officials clung to the hope that this year, unlike last, the crippling disease might reach a peak at an early date, then quickly taper...
Thus isolated, U.S. Steel reluctantly gave in. Wiring his acceptance to the President, Fairless clung to one reservation: "We understand this ... to mean that there is no moral or legal obligation upon us to accept any recommendation which this board may make...
...Mexico clung to its present restrictions on foreign exploration, a loan "would be a disservice" to it and the U.S. Since oilmen guessed that Canada, in five years or so, would be one of the world's major producers of oil, it looked as though the longer Mexico waited, the slimmer would grow its chances of developing its oil lands...
...afternoon recess was called, spectators in the Washington courtroom clung to their seats like grim death, eyes riveted on slim, black-haired Judith Coplon. After seven weeks of sitting by, as loud-mouthed little Defense Attorney Archie Palmer contested espionage charges against her, Judy was going to take the stand. She pushed back her chair at the defense table, walked a few feet, and knelt beside her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Coplon, a black-clad, sorrowing woman...
Elena O'Connor ran to her husband, clung to him so desperately that she was dragged along with the men to the miners' union hall. Before long, 14 other engineers and foremen, including six U.S. citizens, were brought to the hall. The kidnaping of the engineers was part of a plan to force the return of Mine Union Boss Juan Lechin, who had been banished to Chile along with 19 of his aides on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government...