Word: clingingly
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...beginning a merry demoralization that almost results in the ruin of the worthy master, under whose nose it all takes place. When they think that they have cost him his job, they seek to make amends by trying to marry him off to their aunt, but he manages to cling gracefully to celibacy, and winds up in the place of the clergyman, as the new headmaster...
...spreading from a focus in New Jersey, is prone to go on hunger-strikes in captivity, avoid the sprayed plants which the researchers want them to eat. The strike is broken by shining a powerful light in their cages, which attracts them upward from the floor. They cannot cling to the glass walls and tops of the cages, so are forced to settle on the plants. Once there they give up and start eating...
...cubists and present day abstract painters on one hand, and dadaists and surrealists on the other is basic, easily grasped. Abstract painters think of their pictures and statues as objects devoid of meaning, sufficient unto themselves. Surrealist art is still based on reproduction, one reason that its ablest exponents cling to the finicky technique of Victorian miniature painters...
...able to determine, Mr. Kittredge has been a force to be reckoned with in the Harvard scene both in the administration and with the students for forty-eight years, though, naturally, as his reputation grew with his achievements, he gained correspondingly in power. Many of the anecdotes which cling to his name and are bandied about wherever Harvard men gather are the result of his personal magnetism and the imagination which he puts into his approach, into everything he does...
Peace on earth, good will toward men- Democracy must cling to that message...