Word: clingingly
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...people of Handshoe Hollow are in no sense comic-strip characters -though to bemused social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very...
Pear blossoms shaken by mad winds-hither and thither they're tossed; Unable to cling to their bough...
...Jones, whose seven years of effort to win over Sukarno with tolerant understanding did not deter the Bung from continuing to heap contempt and ridicule on the U.S. Whether a blunter approach will bear fruit is anyone's guess. The U.S. sympathizes with Malaysia, but would like to cling to some friendly ties with Indonesia, however tenuous. Sukarno may be angry at the latest U.S. loan to Malaysia for military equipment, but the Malaysians of late have been equally miffed by the proposed sale of $4,000,000 worth of communications gear by a U.S. company to Indonesia...
...older girls out on social work one afternoon weekly. Fieldston's 660 kids enjoy an 18-acre campus in the Bronx, a curriculum strong in arts, crafts, music and ethics (compulsory every year). Two of the oldest schools in the land, Collegiate (founded in 1638) and Trinity (1709), cling to their traditions of classical schooling, also boast student bodies of high IQ ratings...
...parasites that cling to the queen are females, and when she lays her eggs they lay eggs of their own. Dutifully, the fire ant workers care for both sets of eggs and raise the infant parasites just as if they were young of their own species. The parasites thrive while their considerate hosts all but work themselves to death taking care of them The fire ant economy is wrecked. The Healthy parasites mate conveniently in the nest and then fly away to subvert and weaken other fire ant colonies...