Word: clingingly
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...passing one of the many monasteries which cling to those hillsides, he paused before a picture of the Virgin. He put his last coin in the offering box, there & then resolved to enter the Greek Orthodox priesthood. An uncle, a well-to-do priest, shepherded him through the schools of Karditsa, where he excelled as a wrestler and javelin thrower...
Those who still cling to the Dow-Jones theory thought that last week's break was a warning: the market is going down temporarily. But they were a minority. The bulk of the brokers were still sure that, as long as the U.S. has so much cash and comparatively little to buy but stocks, the market has no place...
Assured of such handsome Federal aid, he reasoned, states which now cling to weekly benefits averaging as low as $7 a week could and would raise their scales. Lester estimated the total Federal cost of his program as about $1,250,000,000, a sum equal to what the Government now spends for five days...
Expanding Pressure. But Germans did stand up to fight and die, to cling tenaciously to the German soil, to patch the breaches with more men against a grinding weight that expanded and extended northward to the British Venlo sector as the battle went through three smoke-clouded days and fiery nights...
Said Perkins: "We Americans preach free competition but we don't really practice what we preach. We moralize about the competitive way, and then cling to tariff schedules so high that foreign businessmen cannot enter the U.S. market. . . . A sizable part of American business will want to join cartels after the war to protect its domestic market, and . . . popular opinion will back such a move [because] we are still under the delusion that the way to be prosperous is to sell as much as we can abroad and to buy as little as we can from abroad...