Word: clingingly
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...with its unique autopilot FRED (Freehand Remembering Empirical Doodling system). Starting this month, the makers of Wall-Tex wall coverings will bring Emett's wry whatsits and dotty doodads into the American home with prepasted wallpapers celebrating the inventions he prefers to call Things. Long as they may cling to the wall, they may make many comfortable notions come unstuck...
...1930s--and the government's indicators last month implied things weren't getting much better--politicians have been singularly uninspired in providing new solutions. Even the Democrats can only promise the old-time faith of public works and, consequently, increased consumer demand. The Republicans, represented by President Ford, cling only to a mysterious faith that the current record profits reaped by big corporations will ultimately mean more jobs. So far this has simply not happened...
...them endure? Even now, many Americans are probably more committed to the principle of governmental legitimacy than most Europeans are. While the Americans' experience in a strange and unspoiled new world has liberated them from many outworn European ideas, it has at the same time made them cling for protection to basic European concepts of government and the rule...
...than one, of gray areas, of a private world of conscience and behavior ... But like all places in human experience of rigor and rule ... once the window was opened, everything came under question. No constants remained, no absolutes, and the church became for me a debatable question ... I still cling to the Gospels, to Christ and some of his followers as central to my life, but the institution no longer seems important to me. I no longer live...
...described, the men break into their old school fight song--they are inextricably tied together by the single moment of glory in their lives. They must stick together. Only through a collective, self-deceptive retreat into the past can these men escape the specter of mediocrity. And they cling desperately to the Coach's exhortation--"Never forget that, never!"--hoping without really believing it that their success in a game of basketball has carried over into the game of life...