Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British National Health Service (NHS) is that, together with the rest of the welfare state, it is responsible for Britain's post-war economic decline. Yet beyond this criticism, many Americans have little conception of what comprehensive national health services like those in Britain consist of, and cling to the conviction that socialized medicine is a bad thing. This tends to mean that they are willing to put up with a system that is costly, uneven, and in which the majority of the population are not even fully covered by health insurance. Consequently, ill-health is something to be feared...
...there are still today too many black students at white colleges who cling to black separatist fantasy of black self-sufficiency in regard to overcoming such massive problems as the viable employment of black youths--or so they pretend. This pretense of anti-white radicalism has been carried much too far. Issue-connected radicalism is one thing--I support some of it--but the back separatist fantasy of self sufficiency has outlived even its cathartic utility. The sooner black students at white colleges end this game of "putt'n on the man"--with the twisted result of also putting...
...this month's protests. One only has to look at Prime Minister Ian Smith's current hedging about the progress of his much-vaunted "internal settlement" in Rhodesia to see that behind this combination of internal face-lift and cold-war saber-rattling lies the separate attempt to cling to power...
...sheer passage of time should shortly lighten one of labor's greatest burdens: its rule by aging, parochial leaders of whom Meany is the curmudgeonly symbol. Seven of the 35 members of the AFL-CIO executive council are over 65, and cannot cling to power much longer. Already, some slightly younger and far more aggressive leaders are rising in prominence on the council and talking of new organizing drives, new methods of enhancing labor's political push. Among them are Sol Chaikin, 60, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers; William Winpisinger, 53, chief of the Machinists; Jerry Wurf...
From ten to 15 months, the child is a high-spirited conquering hero, exploring and manipulating the physical world. It is also the period, Kaplan notes, when mothers damage daughters out of a mistaken notion that girls are more fragile than boys. If a girl is encouraged to cling, she says, "the being-done-to element in her personality isn't sufficiently balanced by the sense of mastery and active doing-to." When the mother goes out, the child is almost always depressed, but baby sitters should avoid trying to cheer the child up or distract it with...