Word: clingingly
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Irresponsibility. For a while, Carl and Joan cling to each other in a sort of unprincipled camaraderie: up to a point, Carl shares her lazy indifference to consequences, her pretty-eyed irresponsibility toward everyone, including oneself. But in the end, he makes his break. Along the way, Author McLaughlin (A Short Wait Between Trains, The Side of the Angels) again and again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust...
Such keen interest in current issues indicates the academic community is anxious to discourage the widely held notion that professors are anemic cowards who cling to the cloistered life because they fear the road where men are wont to tread. Indeed, the success of academic penetration into the social, political and literary life of the country shows how well the academy has destroyed this myth...
DEADLINES : "We are prisoners of the newsroom clock. It is crowding us farther off the narrow edge of journalism to which we cling and into the pit of entertainment, circulation gimmicks and advertising reader notices...
Metallurgists melted a 30-lb. piece of molybdenum with a high-density electric arc in a copper-lined, water-cooled crucible. The molten molybdenum was then poured through a series of troughs into a rotating graphite cylinder which forced the metal to cling to its walls while it hardened, produced a molybdenum cylinder 4½ in. wide and 8 in. long...
...primitive setting of the Sierra Maestra, women ate dried codfish and roots, tried to cling to femininity and spent odd moments applying treasured nail polish or borrowing some peasant's iron to put a crease in their riding pants. In keeping with the rebel camp's notable strictness, born of the rebels' single-minded attention to the tasks of war, the women lived apart from...