Word: clingingly
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...personality persist for a few weeks until he forgets the substance of his life-first, perhaps, the sound of a subway train, then his address, finally his name. The ghost, who was a professor named Michael Morgan until his wife (as he claims) poisoned him. vows noisily to cling to life. Then he realizes in terror that Rebeck is right-he has already forgotten Swinburne...
...parents still cling to tribalism, they may sell her into marriage with whatever man offers the highest bride price-usually so many head of cattle. Should the husband at any time grow tired of her, he can send her home and demand back his cows. In some parts of the country, she must bear her mate three children before the union becomes binding. In other districts, if her husband dies she will be handed on to his heir. Whatever money or property he leaves is disposed of by the head of the family, but whatever money she herself earns belongs...
...Marco d'Urri is like scores of villages that cling to the Apennine foothills southeast of Genoa. It is a half-deserted huddle of 50 decaying, slate-roofed houses, without telephones, cars or even a policeman. Life has changed little since Genoese Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, creating a path that many Italians have followed since. The people of San Marco live mainly on chestnuts and vegetables, seldom taste meat, except on four feast days each year. Last week the dour and cagey villagers danced self-consciously in the streets before the cameras that had come...
...Buenos Aires last week, the elected President, Arturo Frondizi. managed to cling to his job through just one curious advantage: his Vice President, Alejandro Gomez, had already been sacked in another crisis ten months before, and Argentina's rebellious military could find no constitutional successor to take over Frondizi's post. Dealing from new strength gained by open revolt (TIME, Sept. 14), the army began purging all pro-Frondizi officers from key positions of command. It was, in a word, a typical week...
...scientists are startlingly "self-impoverished," the narrowness of those who cling to the traditional culture is appalling. Snow finds the brainiest traditionalists unable to describe the second law of thermodynamics,* a question equivalent to asking: "Have you read Shakespeare...