Word: clingingly
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...gone through with recognition." They also confess that they did not expect the Chinese Reds "to be as vicious as they became" in Korea. But disillusioned though they have been on some scores, Canada's China policymakers still look with cool distaste on the Nationalists in Formosa, still cling to their passive attitude toward Chinese Communism...
Dirty Hands HOEDERER: . . . How you cling to your purity, young man! . . . You intellectuals . . . use it as a pretext . . . to do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your side, wearing kid gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbow. I've plunged them in filth and blood...
...past theoretical idealism to the cold, practical facts ... I venture to guess that most of them are under 35 -William Allen White's arbitrarily set age for graduation from socialistic idealism. Some of them-Hollywoodians-are no doubt maladjusted and feel the need to cling desperately to their raised eyebrows...
...public approval, making the country look democratic enough to be a suave, suitable host at the tenth Inter-American Conference of nations next year. Instead, the military junta suffered a stunning defeat-then gave an amazing demonstration of how to break promises, kick democracy in the teeth, and cling to power by force...
While Dever managed to cling to his precarious lead, it became evident that most state offices would be held by Republicans...