Word: clingingly
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Airless Refuge. "We cling to each other and try to persuade ourselves that what we feel is love," writes May. "We do not will because we are afraid that if we choose one thing or one person we'll lose the other, and we are too insecure to take that chance." The individual retires to what May calls "feel-inglessness," from which it is only a short step to apathy. And from apathy, it is only another step to violence...
...approaches he has taken on race and law-and-order remain as relevant in Southern California and South Dakota as in South Carolina. Both philosophically and politically, Nixon will find it impossible to move right of Wallace or left of the national Democrats. Therefore he is expected to cling to his rather conservative concept of the center...
...believe that it had happened. When the basic facts became incontestable, many people still considered them too mundane to merit such a fuss or thought the whole thing ought to be kept quiet so as not to comfort the enemy. Anyone who can read these two books and still cling to either view has lost all sensibility or is beyond the reach of the written word...
...Islamabad is still unfinished), Brasilia was intended to be much more than Brazil's seat of government. Kubitschek envisioned it as the hub of a 5,000-mile highway network that would open the vast interior and draw people away from the coastal cities where, he complained, Brazilians "cling like crabs to the crowded shorelines...
...east of the Square, freshmen sat on the high brick wall on the Quiney Street side of Lamont Library, yelling at police who were held in reserve for action later in the evening. Policemen jumped up the wall, swinging their clubs at students who tried to cling to the edge before dropping down. One policeman broke his club on the wall...