Word: clung
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Arresting. In Great Falls, Mont., police clung to what dignity they could in their new pink radio...
...such notes of sanity were lost in the echoing cacophony of prejudice. The young sailor sitting near the clock suddenly had enough. He leaped to the railing around the gallery, clung precariously to one of the steel uprights that support the roof and yelled: "Mr. Speaker, I demand the right to be heard...
...could be rammed. But there was no need to ram when it could be smashed with gunfire. The starboard guns took up the battle, blazing at close range. The U-boat's conning tower by now was badly smashed. A lone man, his back toward the Spencer, clung desperately to the conning tower as though being crucified. A shell hit him squarely in the back. He crumpled, slumping down over two other corpses on the narrow deck...
...Anti-Saloon League's 50th anniversary, 87-year-old co-founder Dr. Howard Hyde Russell clung fast to his optimism: "This country will be dry by 1950-and I will live...
...child, says Mrs. Wolfe, Tom was breast-fed "until he was three and a half years old," slept with his mother "until he was a great big boy." Only when Tom got "what old-fashioned people called lice," did his mother consent to cut his "beautiful curls." She still clung to him, however, and kept him in short pants until two years before he went to the University of North Carolina...