Word: clingingly
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John Lewis had done more than most men to vest new powers in the Presidency; he now denounced a President who would cling to those powers ("Personal craving for power, the overweening, abnormal and selfish craving for increased power is a thing to alarm and dismay"). A genuine isolationist, he spoke from the heart on the issue most likely to do Campaigner Roosevelt immediate harm ("His motivation and his objective...
...their minds there is always a crisis in which their services are indispensable. Always some great work at hand which they, and they alone, can do. Outwardly, they pretend that they groan under the burden and would be glad to lay it down, but in their secret souls they cling to their places. . . . The friends and sycophants of the incumbent . . . constantly assure their chief that the public good demands that he should not desert the ship. This . . . sweet music that is a curse of kings...
High electronic magnifications (105,000 diameters) of vinylchloride polymer, a rubberlike synthetic, show a mottling of dots which scientists assume to be actual molecules; 25,000-diameter pictures of soft face-powder granules reveal the jagged projections which make them cling to the skin. Electron photographs of typhoid germs and intestinal bacteria disclose delicate, wavy filaments which may be their means of locomotion...
...Important medical detective work is the study of clothing and bits of matter that cling to hot bullets. A shot in the liver, for example, goes through coat, vest, trousers, shirt, underclothes and skin ("which is nothing but rawhide"), forming a cone of matter with the bullet at the apex. "The direction, penetration and size of the cone are important in determining the distance and direction of the shot...
...This gigantic conflict is only a phase ... of our revolution. It is the conflict of poor, numerous peoples who labor against starvers who ferociously cling to a monop oly of all riches and all gold on earth...