Word: clung
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...tape and wet advertisements still clung persistently to every available surface on the formidable facade of Thayer gate...
...second week in a row, Gore clung to his defenses: that he didn't know where the cash had ended up, and that he had broken no laws with his fervent fund raising on federal property. Gore, say his allies, cares far more about fiber optics and digital libraries than soft money and matching funds. On ethical issues, said a longtime aide, "he never gets close to the line...
...voters' rejection of Chirac suggests that the French may have some congenital inability to face the competitive realities of the modern world. Most French analysts, however, put the blame on a failure of leadership. "Yes, the French have clung to an old social model, but by default," says economist Albert Bressand. "No other policy was articulated to them. The French are slow to modernize because of inappropriate leadership left and right...
...left standing. Back in Jarrell, Ladonna Peterson, her son, niece and mother-in-law squeezed into a bathtub. "It got dark, black, and I saw the funnel cloud coming toward us. It was as big as a church and solid black," Peterson told the Austin American-Statesman. Family members clung to one another and sang Jesus Loves Me. The bathroom door flew open, debris covered them, and suddenly it was over. They climbed out to find everything gone, except the bathroom...
...jury last month, he began with a story of two little boys. Just before 8 o'clock on April 19, 1995, Tevin Garrett's mother dropped him off at the day-care center in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. "Tevin, as so often happens," Hartzler said, "cried and clung to her." A two-year-old friend of Tevin's, Elijah Coverdale, was moved to sympathy. "Elijah," Hartzler continued, "came up to Tevin and patted him on the back, and comforted him as his mother left." An hour later, the bomb exploded, and both children were killed...