Word: clingingly
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...immobilizes its victims and leads to uncontrollable retching. At close range, it attacks the central nervous system and causes death. Even more feared by the Afghans is a napalm-like substance fashioned into tiny, marble-sized balls that is spewed from helicopter rocket pods. The sticky little balls cling to everything from beards and headdresses to animals and buildings. Unsuspecting children often pick them up, until they learn that the balls are impossible to fling off. They apparently ignite from exposure to the atmosphere and within minutes burst into flames...
...still get excited over a huge scoop of chocolate ice cream, have an urge to play cat's cradle, or cling to some childhood fetish, than Charlie Brown will appeal to you. At South House, the actors bring Charlie Schultz's comic strip to life. It's a two-hour ice cream cone with a lot of flavor...
...revolution has enormous popular force. It was able to defeat the Shah, who had one of the most powerful and best-equipped armies in that area, practically without weapons The people fought with tremendous courage, losing thousands and thousands of lives. I think the revolution is going to cling to its strong religious and nationalistic accent...
While many judges cling to this "unfitness" test, things are changing. The emergence of job-holding mothers (59% of women 18 to 64 now work) has eliminated a leading legal basis for favoring the exwife. Fathers, encouraged by the new emphasis on equal rights, are increasingly inclined to put up a fight. Though his divorce occurred in 1970, Dancer Edward Villella has sued to retrieve custody of his son Roddy, now 10. (Quipped his exwife, former Dancer Janet Greschler Villella: "He probably saw Kramer vs. Kramer...
...label of apathetic and self-centered, but a better label might be despairing or resigned. They have learned that change will not happen as quickly as they want, and that meanwhile they must eat. But they have a responsibility to continue to believe that change is possible, to cling to idealism. If students do not question Harvard's actions, the leaders of this institution will conclude they are doing the right thing. If professors or administrators disagree with students, they should try to convince them they are wrong. And even if most graduates become doctors, lawyers and businessmen, their concern...