Word: clingingly
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...nests contained various parasites, but the most important turned out to be another species of ants that live without concealment in the fortresses of the fierce fire ants and, by some mysterious influence, make their hosts support them in idle luxury. Usually, a few of the parasites cling to the fire ant queen by means of specially adapted mandibles that fit around her neck without hurting her. When a worker comes to feed her with regurgitated food, the parasites flut ter their antennae, apparently convey ing a compelling message that makes the worker feed the parasites instead of the queen...
...first things the American learns is that the working habits and foibles of European workers are not easily tampered with. The Europeans expect-and get-longer vacations (four weeks in France) and more legal holidays (14 in Sweden) than in the U.S. They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food...
...still many ugly pockets of resistance. The South still accedes to Negro demands reluctantly, surrendering only token bits and pieces. But a majority of Southerners are now resigned to the irrevocable fact that the Negro's demands must be granted under the Constitution. Only a handful of Southerners cling to the illusion that they can sell segregation to the rest of the country, and hardly anyone still believes in the use of violence, except a few backwoods sheriffs and chili-parlor hoodlums. Police Commissioner Claude Armour of Memphis, a city with an excellent integration record, puts it this...
Despite the success of a variety of artificial contraceptives, including "the pills," some medical investigators cling wistfully to the idea that somewhere in the animal or vegetable kingdom there must be an antifertility agent that would be "more natural." Their belief has rested on weak reeds: on every continent, among people of all races, there are numerous old wives' tales to the effect that a particular plant, if its leaves are chewed at the full of the moon or some other arbitrary time, can be counted on to prevent conception...
...Tends to cling to nomenclature...