Word: clingingly
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...everybody has the privilege of going to Harvard or what I would consider the even greater privilege of going to Boston College (loud applause). . . these people have something to cling to in the Patriots...
...mean that all white Oklahomans enjoy the good life. The small farmer's existence is marginal; many must hold other jobs to feed their families. Near Balko, where his grandfather settled in 1907, Travis Boston, 39, figures that he may be the last of his family to cling to farming. He owns 320 acres and leases an equal amount of land to raise wheat and graze his 40 head of cattle, but he has to operate a Phillips 66 gas station as well. He needs more acreage if he is to make farming profitable, but claims that the banks...
...life, often alone, facing the vituperation of Left and Right, and living with the misunderstandings of his friends. But to measure his life by the rightness of his beliefs must have seemed to him to be a last refusal to face the ambiguity of history. If we cling to such truths, we make them sterile, because we are forgetting how fragile and momentary our perception of them was, and remains...
Matter of Integrity. Officials of the district cling to the faint hope that Virginia's general assembly will bail out the bridge-tunnel, though the state has no legal obligation to vote financial aid. Such a move would cost the state $5 million a year, initially. There are questions about the propriety of using tax money to pay off the bonds. The matter has caused anxious debate in the assembly, where the argument for support is that the state's reputation for fiscal integrity would be tarnished if Virginia let the bond issue of a political subdivision...
...pull against a gravity that wants them six feet underground. The music goes round and round, and so do the actors, in a coruscating dance of death. It is a pity that the picture is not left to them. The film makers should have known better than to cling to undimensional symbolism and stylistic conceits. They shoot movies, don't they...