Word: clung
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...hallucinated votes in Cook County, worked for eight years in the Republican wilderness, speaking to every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like five o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...
...comparisons there. And obviously Patti has lived in New York, so there's this New York thing now too. But she wasn't someone I was trying to emulate in any way on this record." Indeed, Smith, with the exception of a few brilliant songs, has clung mostly to her cult. PJ Harvey is ready for a wider embrace...
...fact, it the show's optimistic bent that almost killed it in pre-production. Given the aura of scandal that clung to the White House in the wake of the Lewinsky debacle, producers at NBC were uncertain that the nation would swallow Martin Sheen's squeaky-clean President Barlet. All sorts of polls have shown that the average American's faith in government has slid steadily downward since Watergate. Was it possible that a public so disillusioned with its leaders could accept the portrait of a politician with a magnetic personality, a benevolent heart, and a philosophy of being...
...hearing, while his two children whined and clung to his legs, Stuart argued his case to the city council government ordinance committee...
...bribing an opposition legislator into supporting the president. After all, scandalous as the revelation may have been, dirty tricks by the Fujimori regime are hardly news, and their exposure doesn?t quite explain the sudden change of heart on the part of a man who until now has stubbornly clung to power against the odds...