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...prolong its mental childhood to the age of 21. Really violent adolescence set in at 25. By 30 the physical survivors flickered into a relatively tranquil senescence. But they had been deeply seared by a blinding flash of revelation that life is at bottom brutal, and most of them clung to their cushioning cynicism years after the psychic shock had passed. They had to. Cynicism was the lost generation's only morale...
...stubborn to quit as Prime Minister until he was forced to quit, too stubborn to quit the Government then. His last months were bitter. The cancer that gnawed at his vitals was a part of his personal feud with Hitler, and like most people who have that disease he clung to life while hating it. When it became clear that his operation had not saved his life for long, he resigned from the Cabinet at last...
...conviction of rightness, coupled with his understanding of the seriousness of the times, had led him deliberately to take an attitude of sober seriousness. Day in & day out, he refused to make fireworks speeches. It was not that he couldn't; he wouldn't. He clung almost mulishly to his conviction that plain, serious talk will convince the voters, for the voters of 1940 are serious people who want the truth unvarnished...
After a lifetime spent in studying nerve diseases, paralysis agitans (shaking palsy) attacked Sir Henry in 1926. But for 14 years his trembling fingers clung to life. Last week, at the age of 79, Sir Henry Head died in Reading, England...
After that Worcester clung tenaciously to its slim lead and effectively throttled what few Freshman threats there were before they had time to materialize. For most of the game the Yardlings looked on the verge of going places, but the spark which they lacked against Exeter was still missing, and only once did Chief Boaton's eleven look like an effective team...