Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubts. Psychological studies suggest that among unwed mothers, it is the most unstable who keep their babies. Some of these women, says Boston Psychiatrist Malkah Notman of Beth Israel Hospital, have a neurotic need to be "the sun in someone's universe." Others, says Boston Psychologist David Haughey, cling to their infants not out of love but out of anger. "They are either rebelling against parents who want them to give up their babies or trying to force the man who fathered the child to take care...
Some IATA members cling to the hope that a compromise can be reached before transatlantic chaos sets in. Says Fabrizio Serena, a deputy director gen eral of Alitalia: "Lufthansa has been making noises to the effect that it might possibly review its position if the rest of us make some move toward them." If they come at all, conciliatory moves will probably be made next week, when IATA members meet in Miami to dis cuss fares to Asia and Latin America...
...Anger," Dr. Bach concludes, "cannot be dishonest"-the security-blanket generalization that all the anger buffs cling to, and one as perilously misleading as "in vino veritas." Upon Bach's misapprehension, America's newest industry, group therapy, founders. Venting hostility is so simplistically scripted as the "Moment of Truth" that a whole cult of anger fakers has developed, not unlike the faith fakers who also deceived themselves into salvation at other and earlier camp meetings...
...lost. Nixon's trip is still a long way off, and Washington insists that no deals have been made with Peking. In a personal letter to Chiang, Nixon reasserted that the U.S. is not going to abandon its longtime friend. That hope is not much to cling to, but it is all the Nationalist Chinese have...
...restricted by local governments, but makes up the losses on the Atlantic (though the line ran $29.5 million in the red on that route last year, largely because of the recession).* Even lines that do not make much money over the North Atlantic, including Aeroflot, Air-India and Finnair, cling to the route in order to fly their flags and attract foreign travelers to their countries...