Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week got in a posthumous word on the proselytism question through a television interview taped just before his death in December. It was Heschel whose persuasive efforts at the Vatican helped win Roman Catholics away from trying to convert Jews. "If there are some Protestant sects who still cling to this silly hope of proselytizing [Jews]," he said, "I would say that they are blind and deaf and dumb...
...unhealthy University-government combination, but, more generally, the facility with which faculty move from Cambridge to Washington implies a crass and widespread misuse of Harvard's prestige. The incentives drawing Harvard professors to Washington do not exclusively center on self-improvement (greed), but the desperation with which those men cling to the prestigious designation "Cambridge intelligentsia" probably does...
...might be expected for the normal funeral in and around Johnson City, Texas, but no hint of frenzy. Death is a part of life there. The people always gather when one of their own dies, drawn together by the profound humanness that gives these tiny clusters the strength to cling, generation after generation, in the wash of the Great Plains...
...blouse and tight black slacks, directed Red Cross activities from beneath a shade tree. The mood was relaxed and restrained-even though 3,000 Managuans are known to be dead, another 4,000 were buried alive when the earthquake struck, and hundreds lie wounded. More than 120,000 still cling to their shattered homes in Managua despite the absence of water, food and electricity...
...will be sitting there in Row A, my vision completely blocked, but aware from the sound of the crowd that our team has done something right. I will cling to my seat, remembering how I'd left the 29-29 game five minutes early to help distribute the gloomy Crimson extra. By this time, my tailgate lunch will be crying out for an escape, but there I shall...