Word: clingingly
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...vast, inescapable refuse pile for the hungry and homeless. The characters in Cain's books, most of them drifters and box-car bums, search desperately for a piece of anything to call home. And when they find it, in a highway tavern or a cheap boarding house, they cling to it ferociously and are willing to fight, and, as if often the case, to kill, to preserve...
Residents of Yamit, the big Israeli settlement on the northern Sinai coast, began to wonder if they would be able to cling to their homes after all. The answer was no. As President Navon put it, "We did not make peace with one man, great as he was, but with the people of Egypt. We are duty-bound to continue...
Ironically, University officials must now set aside resentment over Reagan's spending and taxation policies, Coddington says, and cling to "one chief hope that the administration program does achieve its ends" in cutting inflation, increasing the Gross National Product, "and building a generally stronger economy, so that there will be money to give to places like Harvard." Yet at the same time, University financial officers will have to use shortfalls in funding from the NSF, the NIH and elsewhere to drum up individual donations. "If we can make a case to private contributors that we have been hurt in enough...
...prisoners who support the strikers often remind each other bitterly that living may be worse than dying. The cause they cling to is far more compelling than anything in their bleak home neighborhoods. Instead, the prisoners have created their own society inside the Maze that enables them to continue the struggle. Each of the four wings in a block has a commander and an adjutant, and each block has an intelligence officer and an education officer. The inmates speak Gaelic; those who do not know the language are taught inside the prison. The entire hierarchy is run by a shrewd...
...study's authors refuse to accept the U.S. explanation that the bombs were dropped to hasten the war's end and avoid a bloody invasion. Instead, they cling to the questionable theory that the attacks were mainly intended to awe Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. In other respects, the study is remarkably free of polemics, though not of ironies. The writers note that many of the victims were Japanese of American birth who had returned to Japan for study and were trapped there by the war. Those of other nationalities who died in the attacks: thousands...