Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...herself in an extraordinarily awkward position for a modern constitutional monarch: deciding which party or parties would be best able to command support in the House of Commons and thus run the government. The Crown could even be dragged into an unseemly political row if the Tories tried to cling to power in a way that appeared unfair...
...editor and member of the Psychic Investigating Committee of the American Society of Magicians, agrees. "When evaluating the research, we have found that the researcher's will to believe is all powerful. It's a will that has nothing to do with religion; there are Marxists, atheists, agnostics who cling stubbornly to the ancient faith in black magic. Only now it's called 'the paranormal...
...Board members revised only slightly their specific forecasts for 1974. Several who had looked forward to an upturn starting at midyear now think it will be delayed until the fourth quarter. That will produce only 1% real growth or less-.3% says IBM's David Grove. But most cling to forecasts that unemployment will peak at about 6% (Nathan, an exception, guesses 7% or more) and that consumer prices this year will average close to 9% higher than in 1973. Though scarcely cheery, those latter predictions are little worse than those made a few months ago. The inflation forecast...
Others are turning to fundamentalist churches like the Southern Baptist Convention. New York Rabbi Balfour Brickner explains: "People are desperately looking for something to cling to when all other models and molds have been shattered." Still others seek relief in the occult. "Magic and the occult can explain the unanswerable and give the person a sense of control," says Drexel Institute Sociologist Barbara Hornum...
...high school students, some of whom were reading at first-and second-grade levels when they entered. The teachers make special efforts to compensate for parental indifference (which Principal Hal Abercrombie attributes largely to the problem of poverty) and often find themselves acting as surrogate parents. "They cling to you," says Abercrombie of the students. "They wait at the door for you to come to school in the morning. They are so anxious to be around you, they'll do anything you say." Abercrombie would like to see as many as 15 such schools set up in the district...