Word: clingingly
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...battle to abolish football along about 1860 was no more ably waged by those against it than by its defenders who boldly proclaimed, "We need more games; more cricket, symnaeiums, and exercise of every kind. One after another the old institutions of our college life are disappearing. Cling with greater tenacity to the rest. They will be among the pleasantest recollections of after years...
...defense, the Court held, that Comrade Miguschenko, like most political advisers of Soviet sea captains, knew nothing of seamanship himself. The prosecutor next flayed the seamen for not mutinying anyhow to save the tanker: "We must abolish the outrageous behavior of some seamen who still cling to the disgusting traditions of Capitalist fleets!"-i. e. obedience to captain's orders...
...people who cling patriotically to the myth of U. S. supremacy in sport, the game of tennis has lately been a painful disappointment. Not since 1926 has the U. S. won the Davis Cup. For the past two years the ablest amateur tennist in the world has been that convivial young Englishman, Frederick John Perry, who last week made his 1935 U. S. debut by beating old Manuel Alonso in an exhibition match at South Orange. That Perry will win at Forest Hills next week tennis experts are unanimously agreed. If he does so, he will, for the first time...
Author Faulkner likes Joycean agglutinations. Example from Pylon: " 'Deposit five cents for three minutes please,' the bland machine-voice chanted. The metal stalk sweatclutched, the guttapercha bloom cupping his breathing back at him, he listened, fumbled, counting as the discreet click and cling died into wirehum...
...Baruch and the "lories of high finance," he declared: "I am characterized as a revolutionary for raising my voice. . . . With the logic of a braggart I have been challenged to divest myself of my priestly vocation if I wish to participate in national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government . . . must be surrendered into the hands of professional politicians?'' When General Johnson had heard the speech he exclaimed: "Pious flubdub...