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This is a pretty slim reed to hang Reagan on; he was clearly obsessed with the hostages, and clung to any hope of setting them free.
They named him "Spiderman" because of the way Miyares clung to the walls and blindly felt his way along the VA's Western Blind Rehabilitation Center (WBRC) at Palo Alto, California.
He has even been known to do this in French: garde-nez nose-protector is a logical amalgam of garder to guard and pince-nez: An extravagant garde-nez of gold filigree clung to the ridge of his nose.
He became President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in his thirties and, since there was no compulsory retirement age in those days, clung to that office until his death, in 1854--at the age of 99!
Despite the initial lack of any evidence of foul play in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 off the coast of Massachusetts, European newspapers clung hopefully to that possibility Monday.