Word: clingingly
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...Common Market when it was first formed, and probably would have, had it not been for the cry-baby attitude of such countries as Australia, New Zealand, and my own Canada, who by now should surely be old enough to stand on their own feet, rather than continue to cling to Mamma's skirts...
...this age of enlightenment, when we thought we had outgrown the ignorance and superstition of the medieval centuries, it is hard to believe that half a billion people still cling to the Church of Rome and its corrupt hierarchy. And in America, of all places, where freedom from tyranny has been our great heritage, it is incomprehensible that anyone should wish to return to the servile systems of church-dominated countries. Yet it seems that most people, including some deluded Protestants, are falling over one another in their haste to lose their freedom. Your choice of Pope John...
...Administration will probably step up its efforts to apply the same remedy in other U.S. cities. Failure of the experiment would provide railroads with a justification for cutting commuter service still more. Already Boston & Maine President Daniel Benson has warned that if Boston commuters continue to cling stubbornly to their cars, "the basic needs of financial survival will leave the B. & M. no choice but to divest itself of passenger operations...
...Negro, says Baldwin, "has the great advantage of having never believed that collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen, or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors or inferiors, that American men are the world's most direct and virile, that American women are pure. Negroes know far more about white Americans than that...
More specifically, some of the most influential elements among Negro American leadership cling to this variant of liberalism. The fact that its exponents are inter-racial, however, does not make it any more valid in the context of today's world...