Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religious Jews with visions of recovering all the land encompassed by the Israel of biblical times. Says Gideon Bachau, 24, a former paratrooper who lives at Kibbutz Keshet: "This area is more Jewish than some other parts of Israel. Tel Aviv, for instance, was always Philistine country." Other settlers cling to the Heights for more down-to-earth reasons. Explains Zipporah Harel, whose husband was one of the first six farmers to occupy the area: "We are not here because of a love of this land or because it was once Jewish. We are here to protect our country...
...than that of Louis XIV. Its entry requirements have more to do with ability than blood. But there is the same gratification that men and women who run things have always got from being with each other, far from the rest of the world that may resent them or cling to them. There is much that is illusory in these moments of soft music, laughter and warm toasts. In the glow of the White House's East Room or at the State Department's Benjamin Franklin Room, with its sweeping view of the Potomac River valley, the world...
...Toynbee once used a metaphor from his own dreams. In this dream, he said, he had seen himself holding onto the foot of the crucifix high above the altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Then he heard a voice call out in flawless Latin: "Amplexus expecta "-Cling and wait...
...view have signed documents called "living wills" directing their families and physicians not to use extraordinary methods to keep them alive if they become seriously ill and have no reasonable hope of recovery. But a great many others admit that, when faced with death, the natural reaction is to cling to life. Robert Cleath, 47, a speech professor at California Polytechnic State University and a part-time Presbyterian minister in Cambria, Calif., has watched in anguish while his son Rob, now 23, has vegetated in a coma since an auto accident five years ago. Even though Rob shows no signs...
Sale ties Nixon very closely to Southern Rim support. Nixon's pals--like Smith, Bebe Rebozo, John Connally, and Walter Annenburg--are all from that peculiar class of men with new money made outside the Eastern establishment. They cling to what Gary Wills in Nixon Agonistes called "the iron morality of the rails", the conviction that through hard work, unimpeded by traditional ethics, success achieved...