Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprising to find that youth in these days should still cling to the idea that anyone who believes in the government guiding to some extent the economic processes of the nation must necessarily hate business and all business men, must think that no man who wants to make money is honest, must be out to destroy all private initiative and enterprise...
...battle to abolish football along about 1860 was no more ably waged by those against it than by its defenders who boldly proclaimed, "We need more games; more cricket, symnaeiums, and exercise of every kind. One after another the old institutions of our college life are disappearing. Cling with greater tenacity to the rest. They will be among the pleasantest recollections of after years...
...defense, the Court held, that Comrade Miguschenko, like most political advisers of Soviet sea captains, knew nothing of seamanship himself. The prosecutor next flayed the seamen for not mutinying anyhow to save the tanker: "We must abolish the outrageous behavior of some seamen who still cling to the disgusting traditions of Capitalist fleets!"-i. e. obedience to captain's orders...
...people who cling patriotically to the myth of U. S. supremacy in sport, the game of tennis has lately been a painful disappointment. Not since 1926 has the U. S. won the Davis Cup. For the past two years the ablest amateur tennist in the world has been that convivial young Englishman, Frederick John Perry, who last week made his 1935 U. S. debut by beating old Manuel Alonso in an exhibition match at South Orange. That Perry will win at Forest Hills next week tennis experts are unanimously agreed. If he does so, he will, for the first time...
Author Faulkner likes Joycean agglutinations. Example from Pylon: " 'Deposit five cents for three minutes please,' the bland machine-voice chanted. The metal stalk sweatclutched, the guttapercha bloom cupping his breathing back at him, he listened, fumbled, counting as the discreet click and cling died into wirehum...