Word: clingingly
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...street-length or to the floor. It has a plain neck, and if it has sleeves, it has two of them. Although it comes in all materials, it is most popular in wool and most effective in jersey variants, which do what the sack was not permitted to do-cling...
Explanation for Export. Since many in the West cling fondly to the view of Khrushchev as a moderate, one theory is that he was pushed into taking the Caribbean gamble, either by the military or by the so-called "hard line" or "Stalinist" group, which some experts suspect of strong and continuing influence. This, presumably, is just what Nikita would like the world to think. Some Western observers even go so far as to argue that if Khrushchev was forced into the Cuban move by "extremists," he is now in a better position than before, having proved the extremists wrong...
...years, but not to der Alte. At 86, after 13 years as Chancellor, Adenauer still relishes the power that came to him so late in life-and, though he has agreed in writing to step down in the fall of 1963, he is now looking for a way to cling to that power a little longer...
...work is done at Aubusson on the river Creuse, the waters of which, unlike most other rivers in France, are free from calcium and perfect for dyeing wool. Dyeing sheds, with skeins of wool in every shade and color hanging outside to dry in the warm sun, cling to its banks. A more romantic reason for Aubusson's destiny is the fact that it lay in the heart of the troubadour country during the days when chivalry was in flower and found its grand expression in tapestry...
...fear seems absurd, considering not only U.S. pledges but U.S. self-interest, but the French cling to it. They know that a small nuclear force of their own could neither prevent nor successfully retaliate against a Soviet nuclear strike; but, should the "pause" ever occur, the French could force Washington's hand by the use of even limited nuclear weapons. In other words, they could leave the U.S. no choice but to finish what the French had started...