Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson reported that Summers forced Kirby to resign, citing four people close to the central administration.Ellison said he was willing to forgive “early mistakes” in Summers’ tenure and initially hoped they would not be repeated.“I no longer cling to that hope,” Ellison said yesterday.—Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
...think there's a false choice being presented in the Democratic Party right now, between those who argue that our job is to oppose everything George Bush does and cling to the old-time religion, or the DLC faction where you just split the difference and not notice that over a number of years the goalposts are drifting further and further to the right. What I think we have to do is transcend those categories... So, when I call up a David Sirota or write I to Daily Kos, what I'm trying to do is explain my views...
...postal system, which, among other things, is the world's largest savings bank. Koizumi then made good on a threat many had considered a bluff. He dissolved the Diet's lower house and called a snap election, positioning the vote as a referendum on whether the people wished to cling to their big-government roots, or press ahead with the frequently painful changes necessary to produce a more modern and competitive economy...
...your experience with learning Arabic and Farsi for the film? GC: I had an Iranian roommate in college, so Farsi wasn’t so hard, but Arabic almost killed me. There’s no Latin to it, so there’s nothing I could really cling to. I had to learn it phonetically and it was a tricky thing, but you spend a few weeks just practicing and you start learning. —Staff writer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...charming; I would fail each time. But she was a person of tremendous forgiveness—I’m still grateful to her for this—and she would smile and maybe laugh and she would say something that would strike me as brilliant. I would cling to this encounter throughout the day like a sparrow to a bright-colored bit of string, and at night I would add it to my modest little nest of unfounded hope. The whole thing ran its course, and like most youthful delusions it faded away gently with age and experience...