Word: clingingly
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...there is no room for false complacency among Republicans, who don't want to see their Party fall back into the morass of isolationism. Many of their most prominent and respected colleagues still cling to that ideal as a panacca that once given a chance will right all America's wrongs...
...exhibition were pleasantly unconventional, individual, beautifully suited to their California settings. Walls and sliding partitions of transparent glass catered to the Californian's desire to spend half his life out of doors and made adjacent woods and gardens an intimate part of the interior decoration. Built to cling to steep slopes, many of the houses stepped gracefully down terraced levels, with front entrances and garages on their top floors...
...Dean Chauncey's clearing-house in University Hall, will attempt to make unaroused Harvardmen realize that "keeping calm" does not mean burying one's nose in a book or a stein of beer and forgetting that a war exists. Actually, of course, there are a few who still cling to kidding themselves, but so far the trouble has been that opportunities for volunteers were vague or non-existent; also many undergraduates or graduates felt that it would be impossible to fit any sort of work into days already overcrowded...
...their present national policy, and the Japanese believe that the prosperity and glory of their empire can only be derived from conquest this end they are ready to undergo privation and are ready to die. That is why there is no revolution in Japan and the people still cling together after four years of disastrous adventure in China...
Edicts still forbid the teaching of religion to children under 18, distribution of the Bible or church literature, any form of "religious propaganda." Yet even the League of the Militant Godless admits that millions of Russians (in 1936 it estimated half the total population) still cling to their Greek Orthodox faith...