Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sees the movement today-replete with its anti-authority impulses-still clinging to the existing institutions, kicking them and urging change. If indeed the movement does not believe in authority and "expertise" then why cling to Harvard or M.I.T. as the great hopes of man? Leave the places...
Whatever its intent, it is a phrase that will undoubtedly cling to Moynihan and the Nixon Administration. The President liked the memorandum and asked for its wide circulation. It went to three other White House assistants, four Cabinet members, and no fewer than 25 copies circulated around HEW, where, Moynihan suspects, the leak occurred. Reaction from liberals was swift. Twenty-one civil rights leaders made a highly emotional public reply, complaining that the memo was a "flagrant and shameful political document." It all depended on how the memo was read: it was, after all, written in the context of White...
Many, of course, cling as grimly as ever to integration, particularly in the South, where it has brought fundamental changes. "Naw, we're not gonna give up," said an angry black mechanic working on a Buick in a Gray, Ga., garage. He told TIME Correspondent Kenneth Danforth: "If we had had integrated schools just ten years ago, I'd be driving this Riviera instead of bent over the son of a bitch." In Fayette, Miss., black Mayor Charles Evers found uses for the new adversity. "Black people can fight better when they are pressured...
...result of their studies, Avalanchologist Andre Roche and other institute scientists now classify avalanches in two basic groups. One is the dreaded Staublawine (German for dust avalanche), which may occur, for example, when heavy new snowfalls fail to cling to the older foundation and begin to slide in billowing masses down the slope. It can be set off by a sudden shift of wind. Literally riding on a cushion of air at speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., dust avalanches create such enormous pressure differentials that they have been known to pull people out of their homes or knock down...
During the process, while Peter was visiting him in Tucson, Stormy MacDonald slashed his wrists, then shot himself. Mother, girlfriend, best man ? all suicides. Intimations of mortality began to cling to Peter. Nothing he said seemed edited by his brain. His sister had gath- ered a barefoot-in-St.-Tropez reputation as Director Roger Vadim's newest protegee. When Henry objected to Jane and Roger's live-in arrangements, Peter announced, "Father was living in Malibu and the only difference was that he'd send his chick home at night. His duplicity blew our minds...