Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleges which still cling to old-fashioned ground plays is the University of Pittsburgh, for the past 15 years coached by tall, angular Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland. Jock Sutherland, who learned his football under famed Pop Warner, is the envy of every other football coach in the country this year. He has what they call a "dream backfield''-powerful running backs who can block, kick and handle passes with equal skill...
...release of subconscious insight such as Francine's was found in other patients at a certain stage. ''Schizophrenics sometimes cling to reality just in the moment when, because of their disease, they are afraid of losing it completely," Dr. Bender said. "Then they see more than the normal person, who does not always appreciate what he has in this world." Most sane and able artists professionally see "more than the normal person," and in this, as in what Dr. Bender called "the uncanny mysticism" of other pathological daubers, the case work on exhibit invited rude yells from...
...raising the cry of "rubber stamp" against Eliot. But the Democrats who turn out to be rubber stamps are unknowns swept into office on a landslide, tyros who possess no knowledge about government, and who naturally therefore think that the best way to stay in office is to cling fast to the President's coat tails, Eliot, however, is widely known for his work in drafting and defending the Social Security Act. If he is elected, it will be for the experience he has acquired, the ability he has demonstrated, and the intelligent independence which such a background makes inevitable...
...President to put Recovery ahead of Reform instead of Reform ahead of Recovery. Premier Daladier calculated that with living costs rising, millions of French workers would rather increase their earnings by working 48 hours (with 10% overtime after 40 hours as offered by the Premier) than cling to the 40-hour week. Secondly, the Premier counted on most Frenchmen, irrespective of party, being able to see last week the military necessity of raising French production, thereby also strengthening France's financial position by increasing Government revenues...
Unfortunately, men with good intentions (like Mr. Roosevelt) are not always wise, and smart men (like some other politicians) are not always good, and so some narrow-minded cranks like myself still cling with great longing to the liberty for which our fathers died, the God-given right to make a fool of ourselves our own way, instead of Roosevelt...