Word: clingingly
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...dropped into the clouds from planes and, by lowering the temperature of the air, creates small ice crystals or nuclei to which the water drops in the cloud cling. These drops then fall and melt into rain as they near the earth...
...eminent university cling to a tradition of snobbery is alarming...
...Queen Mary did not cling to the insubstantial shadows of what had been. She moved easily through the changing scenes . . . She died in the knowledge that the crown of these realms, worn so gloriously by her husband and by her son and so soon to be set with solemnity on the head of her granddaughter, is far more broadly and securely based on the people's love . . . than in the sedate days of her youth, when rank and privilege ruled society...
...message, possibly from a hand-cranked "Gibson Girl" transmitter of the type used on life rafts. As a great sea-air search got underway the next morning, one of the 20-odd planes which took part sighted what seemed to be a raft, with six people clinging to it. But they were never seen again. A 20-ft. sea was running, and it seemed doubtful that survivors could cling to a raft for long...
Dealing with man in this fashion, Miller said, it becomes impossible to cling to the surface realism of Ibsen's play of the family and the "living room," and at the same time give its proper force to the impact of the social process itself...