Word: clung
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...thought then all was up. I tried frantically to keep my head above the surface. I thought crazily it was all up. And then I struck some sort of a hook in the stream with my hands. I clung...
...Though he had been forced to hand in his resignation, sick old Aristide Briand clung to his Foreign Office desk at the Quai d'Orsay until the last minute. Premier Laval called personally, begged him to accept an honorary Cabinet post. Brer Briand issued an acid statement: "M. Briand would prefer to study the juridical and diplomatic form in which he might contemplate eventual collaboration...
...becoming ski-conscious. Everyone in New England is more or less familiar with the old story of the Dartmouth Outing Club. It has been often told how through the efforts of this group the Dartmouth undergraduate was persuaded to leave the warm stove about which he had formerly clung from December until April and to take advantage of skiing conditions that few other colleges enjoy. Then came the development of the unique Winter Carnival and the formation of a winter sports team, and Dartmouth became known as an "outdoor college...
Some (but only a few) of Author Spencer's sentences are as fearful & wonderful as any Author James ever spun: "She yet, however, hungrily clung to it, used it, developed it: it came nearer to anything else to yielding what she so deeply needed ; and if it fell to an inordinate memory thus at the beginning sometimes to wound her with abnormal revisionings, it was to become the office of an equally inordinate imagination in the end to turn them, in restitution, to another account ? to select, to reshape, to interpret every adaptable passage in the history...
Manager Beattie, local agent of the far-flung Royal Bank of Canada, was out riding. The blast lifted his horse from under him. Manager Beattie crawled on the ground, clung to groaning trees. A liquor warehouse burst. Bottles of whiskey rolled into the door of the nearby U. S. consulate. Consul G. Russel Taggart was stunned by a falling piece of roofing metal...