Word: clingingly
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...howl of protest from all sides may be expected this morning to greet the announcement that meal prices will rise next year. It is only natural to assume that those who have, wanting to cling to their dollars, and those who have not, confronting the prospect of being forced to find more dollars, will point to the $40,000 which the dining halls turned over to Student Employment last year and ask the reason for the boost...
...Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image. . . . My detachment from things and persons is also affectionate, and simply what the ancients called philosophy: I consent that a flowing river should flow; I renounce that which betrays, and cling to that which satisfies, and I relish the irony of truth; but my security in my own happiness is not indifference to that of others: I rejoice that every one should have his tastes and his pleasures. That I am conceited, it would be folly to deny: what artist, what thinker...
...this made Cuba's colorless and cautious Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vinagres Acting President. Next day the electoral College elected him the Republic's sixth President in 28 months. He clung to about the only thing in Cuba's political ferment he could cling to, the date set by Princeton's Dodds for the next regular election of a President of Cuba...
Judge Hamilton: "If we cling to the doctrine of states' rights in the matter of commerce as it existed in the early days of the republic, a palsied hand holds the power, and decay will set in in our nation before its time...
...surprising to find that youth in these days should still cling to the idea that anyone who believes in the government guiding to some extent the economic processes of the nation must necessarily hate business and all business men, must think that no man who wants to make money is honest, must be out to destroy all private initiative and enterprise...