Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some elderly Americans cannot afford even the smallest apartment. For them, what passes for independence is a clammy rented room and a hot plate. An estimated 2,000 oldsters cling to life in $15-a-week furnished rooms in Boston's shabby South End. A few others find homes in peeling, decrepit residential hotels like the once elegant Miami resort where Mrs. David Yates, 90, gets a suite of rooms, maid service and two meals a day (no lunch) for $500 a month. People who cannot afford even this much may sometimes find a plain but safe haven...
...know, been a stable year for any of us. And with good reason. In Boston as in El Paso, 4% of the population has $60,000 per year while the other 96% cling tenuously to whatever modest, constantly shrinking income they can manage. One-third of the country is at the poverty line or below. Another one-half, more than one-half, is made up of people who are doing the work that makes this the country is called the richest in the world. And yet who could say that, that many are appreciated with an appropriate and just...
...city fell, some 400 Vietnamese air force men firing pistols and grenades forced their way past women and children onto a World Airways 727 chartered to fly refugees from the city. Several people were crushed as the plane took off; others fell to their deaths after trying to cling to the still open stairs and wheel wells. The incident and the unruly mobs at the airport caused the U.S. to suspend its program of evacuating refugees by air. The chaos and hopelessness in Danang moved President Ford to order four U.S. Navy transports to stand off the Vietnamese coast...
...increasingly attractive to ecumenically minded Catholics. Church Historian Martin Marty, a U.S. Lutheran, thinks that the book's "vision may be the only one open to 21st century Christians." On the other hand, it may be only the vision of an ecumenical theology, while many Protestants and Catholics cling as strongly as ever to the ideas contained in their traditional catechisms...
...Same Time, Next Year is about the continuity in people's lives, the play is also concerned with another, related theme-man's need to cling to an illusion until it assumes its own reality. The vows of love that George and Doris exchange during their first meeting seem explicable only as an effort to excape from the less romantic everydayness of work and marriage. Early in the play Doris simultaneously affirms and questions the illusory nature of their relationship when she tells George, "You kept slipping into my reality." Later on George confides that he called her once during...