Word: clingingly
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...instance, she always rides in the forward jump-seat of her Daimler, coupling an old-fashioned inclination to see where she is going with an equally old-fashioned desire to sit up straight. And her unswerving devotion to prewar (World War I, of course) conventions leads her to cling rather impishly to her hat styles and to carry a parasol whenever possible...
...press, consistently more liberal than the Government, gleefully belabored Shidehara's "do-nothing" administration. Cried Tokyo's influential Yomiuri Hochi: "The pursuit of those responsible for the war will soon be made by the people themselves ... up to the Emperor himself if they continue to cling to their positions without any thought of repentance...
Playing Tigers. As Englishmen entered into "the last decade of their grandeur," Artist Ryder, with no faith to cling to, desperately sought to recapture his artistic vitality by painting in the Latin American jungles. Result: he became a bigger social success. "Mr. Ryder," the best critics agreed (in one of Waugh's inimitable parodies of claptrap), "rises like a young trout to the hypodermic injection of a new culture . . . focussing the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism. . . . Mr. Ryder has. found himself." But Anthony Blanche could not be fooled...
...That Britons cling too tightly to the precious pence...
...Congress and public did not understand (because it had not been told clearly and authoritatively) that U.S. prosperity and hope of peace depended to a significant degree on the British loan. If Britain, appalled by the terms, refused the loan, these results were probable: 1) Britain would cling of necessity to closed Empire trade and blocked sterling, thus shutting off a large part of the world from the general flow of commerce; 2) Britain could scarcely participate, as the U.S. hoped she would, in the Bretton Woods plans for freeing currency exchanges and stimulating world trade; 3) currency controls...