Word: clung
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...when the moment for rhetorical flourishes had passed and the time came to map out a concrete strategy for the future, reality set in. The lenders clung tightly to their checkbooks and, pleading financial difficulties at home, asserted that the meeting was not meant to be a "pledging session." The borrowers, their request to increase development assistance by 130%, to $45 billion, and debt relief by at least $35 billion unmet, expressed disappointment. "What we hear is far from the concrete proposals we were expecting," said Niger's Ide Oumarou, secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity...
...fast life in the dance halls, saloons and casinos, then appended a letter home: "Still there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town"), and finally fell into desuetude, having little more purpose in the world than grist for the mills of pulp- fiction writers. It clung on, though, a self-proclaimed "town too tough to die," until that moment in this century when the nation realized collectively there was value in old things: if there was gold in them thar Vermont barns, there was money to be made in Boothill...
...selfighteousness. It was he who accused Fiedler of offering to pay off much of his campaign debt if he would drop out of the race. Fiedler was indicted on the charge, but a judge dismissed the indictment for lack of evidence. Still, an odor of vague notoriety has clung to Fiedler's campaign --and Davis...
Then consider that, until a 10-2 Yale run with two minutes remaining sealed the contest, Harvard clung tight...
...psalmbook kept him company. During the nine years he spent in Soviet prisons and work camps, most of his other possessions were taken from him. But he clung to a miniature copy of the Book of Psalms that his wife Avital had sent from Israel. In fact, he once spent 130 days in solitary confinement because he refused to allow the authorities to confiscate the book. Early last week his Soviet guards tried again to seize it. In desperate fury, the prisoner defied his captors by throwing himself into the snow. "I said I would not leave without the Psalms...