Word: clingingly
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...each meal. The chefs are masters of efficiency, whipping up three or four weeks of meals in a marathon six-hour session and juggling a dozen or more clients. Hayward's business, Premier Concierge of Columbus, primarily consists of a Volvo station wagon brimming with knives, spice tins and cling wrap...
...flawed elections and Mugabe’s flagrant abuse of executive power. An attempt by the United States and Great Britain to convince Mugabe to share power in a national-unity government appears to have failed, indicating even more strongly Mugabe’s determination to cling to power. In response, the European Union (EU) and the United States have condemned the elections. The EU imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe before the election was even held, following the expulsion of European election observers, and EU ministers are set to discuss the possibility of further measures. In the United States, Secretary...
...seems to have tried to make a deal with Wardak to surrender his forces when an American attack became imminent. But local feuds got in the way; Mansoor led his troops into the mountains, where they had already made preparations. Wardak says that in the tiny villages that cling to the slopes, al-Qaeda fighters had been buying the houses with mud walls, like miniature medieval fortresses. "Those who didn't want to sell," Wardak told TIME, "were asked to leave." Some al-Qaeda fighters hunkered down; high above the valley floor, others headed for the caves that Mansoor...
...unconditional “hysteria.” However, he fails to mention that the population of Jews in the world is miniscule and that Jews were the target of the greatest genocide in world history. Because there are so few Jews left in the world today, maybe we cling to solidarity because we have to. Because our existence depends on it and has depended on it for five millenia...
...seems to have tried to make a deal with Wardak to surrender his forces when an American attack became imminent. But local feuds got in the way; Mansoor led his troops into the mountains, where they had already made preparations. Wardak says that in the tiny villages that cling to the slopes, al-Qaeda fighters had been buying the houses with mud walls, like miniature medieval fortresses. "Those who didn't want to sell," Wardak told TIME, "were asked to leave." Some al-Qaeda fighters hunkered down; high above the valley floor, others headed for the caves that Mansoor...