Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toothpaste tubes, as well as all of the containers of hand cream, stocked to lubricate the skin in the spacecraft's dry atmosphere. The astronauts could console themselves with once-a-week showers, but pleasant as the bathing was, it was also very taxing. Water tended to cling firmly to the body and to the shower compartment's walls. As a result, Kerwin said, "it takes forever to dry both one's self and the wall ... even using that inadequate little vacuum cleaner that we've got." Skylab's toilet, in contrast, worked very efficiently...
...distinction is not artificial, nor is it just stylistic. Although most people in the Harvard community readily acknowledge that Bok is a good administrator, while Pusey was more inclined to cling steadfastly to his principles, the difference between the two men does not center around Bok's slickness vs. Pusey's "reasoned conservatism...
...terror needs time to heal, " she says. "I just cling to a fleeting hope. Maybe they were all murdered, but I can only hope they will find one of them in a cave somewhere...
...East-West trade could markedly improve the Soviet economy by bringing in foreign technology-notably computers-and consumer goods. But the Soviet Union will not make the final leap to true consumer affluence until its top political leaders find some way of reconciling central planning, to which they obdurately cling as the distinguishing feature of a socialist economy, with the decentralized industrial decision making that they admire in the capitalist West...
...exhibit, dancing models plucked partners from the audience for a whirl around the floor. As always, the gendarmes had crowd-control problems. Amidst all the hoopla was a rather prosaic message: women buying Paris labels next fall will find many of them attached to familiar skirts and sweaters. Dresses cling at the bodice and flare at the hems, and pants are getting less emphasis...