Word: clingingly
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Girls prowl the store like hunters on safari. They are identically sleek and skinny, lean and hungry, sloe-eyed, long-legged, small-hipped and jazzy. The jungle's name is Jax, and the girls know what they have come for: slacks that cling like oil to water...
...three, Shastri, 59, a vegetarian and teetotaler who rose through Congress Party ranks to become one of Nehru's most dependable lieutenants, has the best chance of becoming Deputy Prime Minister. He is an honest, inoffensive politician with the smallest number of political enemies. Nehru will probably cling to the title of Prime Minister, but it was Shastri whom he summoned after his illness with the plea: "Please help me. You will have to carry on my work...
What is the opposite of adhesive? The word is abhesive, and it was coined by a scientist several years ago to describe something that refuses to let other material cling to it. The substance that inspired the word is a peculiar and promising product called Teflon, a slippery white plastic that feels something like a wet bar of soap.* Discovered in 1938 almost accidentally by Du Pont scientists who were working on fluorocarbon refrigerants, Teflon has other valuable properties: it will burn only when directly exposed to flame, is a superior electrical insulator and resists tears and impact...
Piloting that B-29 was the nearest de Antonio has come to holding, or even wanting to hold, a steady job. He has clung to his independence, which means that no one--not wives (he has had four), not employers (he has had dozens)--has been able to cling to him. After the War he got his master's degree in philosophy at Columbia while working as a barge captain. It was an ideal job for a graduate student: all he had to do was untie the barge in the morning and tie it up again at night. The rest...
...their disappointments, most Americans sincerely praise the average South Vietnamese soldier as a gutsy little guy capable of surprising courage if given the training and the leadership. They cling to the hope that such leadership will be forthcoming, despite two government overthrows in Saigon in three months. "What you've got to learn in Viet Nam," says a U.S. Army major in the Delta, "is that the name of the game is frustration, and you simply have to live with it." Another Yank keeps a card in his wallet to pull out in moments of despair. It reads: "Patience...