Word: clingingly
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Above the high altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth, in Yorkshire, hung a man. He was holding on precariously to the foot of the crucifix, while a voice said: "Amplexus expecta [Cling and wait...
...readers will accept-or read-all of Toynbee; many will reject a great deal. But if the West, clinging to its steep cliff, wants a heartening message, one can be found in this "post-Christian" English historian. It is in the other, larger meaning of Amplexus expecta-that the West must cling to God, to a life that is always dangerous, and to man's constant, painful duty to choose between good and evil...
...Dizzy Dean), ballplayers generally are a reticent lot, given less to the clubhouse high jinks than the sports pages suggest, given more to the somber dollars-and-cents business of winning ball games than the hero worshipers like to believe. The high-riding New York Giants of 1954 cling in curt, almost surly fashion to the stereotype-they get together in clubhouse and ballpark not to win friends but to win ball games. Even on the crest, as they were while clouting the Brooklyns six straight in a pair of recent series, the Giants were in no mood for skylarking...
There is, however, quite enough technical magic in the famous episodes-the target incident that gives the first hint of Queeg's queerness, the dye-marker affair that sicklies him o'er with a yellow stain of panic. These scenes, for all their episodic quality, cling together like the well-machined surfaces they...
...Dienbienphu, though he had some 20 battalions elsewhere in Indo-China, including four paratroop battalions in the Red River Delta. "Navarre seems to be drawing completely into himself," said one high-placed observer. "It's almost as though he had a Gotterddmmer-tmg complex." Navarre meant somehow to cling a while to Dienbienphu in the hope that peace could be negotiated at Geneva, but there would be no new blow against the Communists-for that, as one of his aides astonishingly explained, would be "inconsistent with the government's decision to seek a negotiated settlement...