Word: clingingly
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...makes no sense for the U.S. to reverse its concept of Formosa's strategic importance and at the same time cling stubbornly to the old, down-the-nose political attitude towards Formosa's Nationalist government. Yet so far as I can judge here, this is precisely what the U.S. State Department is undertaking to do. I can state as fact that no instructions to modify or alter in any way our political, diplomatic and military relations with the government of this island have been received by U.S. representatives here...
...folly to live at Harvard College and cling to the dress habits of some other locality. Purple shirts and lime-colored pants may be the height of fashion in Southern California, but a man in such a costume passing through the Yard is likely to stop traffic and cause much derisive comment. This does not mean that lime-colored slacks are bad, merely that they look peculiar in the surroundings of the Yard. Some people, out of spite, will cling to their lime pants and two-tone jackets; it is their privilege...
...biographical sketch in his Playbill, Jean Arthur may have seemed as ageless and mysterious as Peter Pan himself. The eight-line sketch offered little more than the fact that she was a famous screen star whose favorite film was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Zealously shy and determined to cling to her privacy, Actress Arthur had ordered no more published. She also staunchly refused interviews, balked at a curtain speech, made it a point to flee from the theater (and stage-door crowds) without taking time to remove make-up or costume...
Atami, on Japan's southeast coast, is one of the loveliest resort towns in the world. The mountains tumble abruptly down to Atami's yellow beach, and at this time of year the wistaria blooms in purple luxuriance on the walls of inns and cottages that cling to Atami's hillsides...
...stranger phenomenon of joint education. While the Corporation chooses fitting titles, the student attends what is really Harvard-Radcliffe, a college for men and women. Naturally, many students resent this reality, especially those who thought they applied to a men's (or women's) college. Naturally, they attempt to cling to the remains of their illusion...