Word: clingingly
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...that they thought Ike's lack of leadership was to blame. Not only had Democrats and Old Guard Republicans gained strength from the general confusion (headlined the New Rochelle.N.Y. Standard-Star: GOP TELLS IKE TO GO JUMP IN BUDGET LAKE), but Ikemen had nothing of their own to cling to. Reasons: 1) in order to make speeches defending the budget, an Eisenhower Republican had to accept the President's word that it was sound; 2) every time an Ikeman staked his political future by defending the budget he was likely to have the ground cut out from under...
Wherever Wyszynski goes, he makes it a practice to remain until the crowds that inevitably lie in wait for him have dispersed-so as to prevent demonstrations. When he says Mass, he usually emerges from the parish house about an hour after the service. Women kiss his ring, children cling to his robes, people grab at his hands. "Good souls, go home, please," he will say, "or I'll put a tax on you for the rebuilding of the church...
...Mennonites who live in 54 campos, small communities of 40 or 50 families. In some ways the Chihuahua settlers are less determinedly orthodox than the Amish of Pennsylvania. The men wear ordinary straw hats, overalls and work shoes, and the women wear colored homespun (only the older women cling to the black dress). Buttons and zippers are not considered works of the Devil, nails are used in construction, and there are no hex signs on the barns. The men may drink a limited amount on Sunday afternoons. But occasional defectors-young men who tire of the life and marry Mexican...
...Joke on Tame Cats. The theme of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is fraud leavened with a little Freud. In particular, it is the kind of fraud practiced by the English, who cling to the belief that if something awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin...
...Republican party, despite the President's efforts to make it a forward-looking political force, has continued to cling to a philosophy of the past. The inner power structure of the party, particularly in its close identification with the Vice President, remains dominated by the Old Guard. The leaders of the Republican party are William Knowland and Joseph Martin, men whose fondness for the Eisenhower program seems to spring more from practicality than from clear approval. Jacob Javits, Paul Hoffman, Arthur Larsen, and even the President are not the effective policy makers who determine the record of an Administration...