Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEADLINES : "We are prisoners of the newsroom clock. It is crowding us farther off the narrow edge of journalism to which we cling and into the pit of entertainment, circulation gimmicks and advertising reader notices...
Metallurgists melted a 30-lb. piece of molybdenum with a high-density electric arc in a copper-lined, water-cooled crucible. The molten molybdenum was then poured through a series of troughs into a rotating graphite cylinder which forced the metal to cling to its walls while it hardened, produced a molybdenum cylinder 4½ in. wide and 8 in. long...
...primitive setting of the Sierra Maestra, women ate dried codfish and roots, tried to cling to femininity and spent odd moments applying treasured nail polish or borrowing some peasant's iron to put a crease in their riding pants. In keeping with the rebel camp's notable strictness, born of the rebels' single-minded attention to the tasks of war, the women lived apart from...
Many businessmen still cling to the timeworn arguments that a company has no business openly endorsing any policy or party, because it may offend customers or the opposing political party. "At one time or another," says United States Steel Corp., "you have to do business with both parties." American Welding & Mfg. Co. President William J. Sampson Jr. says that the truth is simply: "We're all yellow. We businessmen should stand up for what we believe in. But whenever it's controversial, we back away...
...classes, crippled by debt and (in his view) shackled by snobbery. He invited them to descend with him into the nether regions of the "working class where we belong," for, says he, "we have nothing to lose but our aitches." The British middle classes, however, have stubbornly continued to cling to their social aspirations and their aspirates. Class war may be 'ell. but the better-bred Briton has decided to huff it out on his own side of the phonetic fence...