Word: clingingly
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...Jersey beach when his office put through an urgent call: get to Hong Kong and be ready to enter Red China. Sparks normally wears a toupee over thinning hair, but he had just shaved his scalp for a cool vacation, and the toupee had nothing to cling to. So Fire-Horse Sparks rushed off without it, had a hair-curling time persuading Hong Kong immigration officials that he was really the fur-bearing man pictured on his passport. Snorted Sparks last week: "I don't see now why I was in such a hurry." Indeed, it looked...
...grubby, turn-of-the-century English small town, it is possible to mistake her for just another awkward young girl idly dreaming of escape. But quickly and chillingly it becomes clear that Angel is one of those rare and frightening people who take their dreams literally, cling to them even in the high noon of growing up, and are ready to lie, cheat or step over corpses to make their fancies come true. Angel dreams of being beautiful, clever, successful, beloved, and of owning Paradise House, the stately manor where her aunt is a lady's maid. While...
Much can be said for the inside board, to which many big and forward-looking firms still cling steadfastly. They argue that only the president and his executives-men intimately familiar with the corporation's daily operations-can make swift, sure policy decisions. International Shoe Co., the largest U.S. shoe manufacturer, has a 100% inside board to run its highly technical business; the U.S. petroleum industry also leans to inside boards, whose members know all the tricks and pitfalls of their risky business. Says Harmon Whittington, president of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton broker...
...touch culturally" and never sees the same TV that other people see. "For one thing, we have one of the first sets ever built, which means that if you squat so close to it that your knees rub against the dial buttons, you can almost see Ed Sullivan. We cling to it, all ten inches of it, because we imagine that any minute now it will be valuable as a collector's item. Pull out those tubes, plant it with philodendron, and there's your conversation piece." But then-every time the Kerrs save...
...made you think?" "Write to me, and I will make love to you-to relieve the enormous solitude which I carry about with me. I do not like myself, and sometimes I do not like you; but there are moments when our two unfortunate souls seem to cling to the same spar in a gleam of sunshine, free of the other wreckage for a moment." "My pleasures are music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this I can sweeten with a kiss, but I cannot saturate and spoil it with fifty thousand . . . Beware. When...