Word: clingingly
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...Nationalism is a principle that binds us universally as a Weltanschanung [philosophy]. While we cling with boundless love and faith to our own people, we respect the national rights of other nations out of the same feeling, and it is our heartfelt desire to live with them in peace and friendship. Therefore the idea of 'Germanization' is unknown...
Prefabricators urge that their houses will not only be cheaper but as much of an advance over old houses as automobiles are over horse-carts. And they need not be stylistically "moderne." Ivy will cling to their walls. Their insides can be decorated, if need be, in the taste of the late Alfred Lord Tennyson...
...departed from the ways of their fathers and how impossible lit was to go back, and had therefore determined to hold fast to something. Religion, paternal authority, the family, all may go; but at least we still have the Constitution and the Supreme Court, and so long as we cling to them we may feel sure that in the field of Government we shall still be ruled by the wisdom of our great grandfathers...
...eagerness with which such cure-alls are seized by the American public gives a very good indication of the general feeling of despondency and gloom caused by the depression. The average American is willing to grasp at a straw and to cling tenaciously until the last vestige of hope is withdrawn. It is a bad sign of the times. After Biocracy what? Cornell Daily...
...rapid for mass regulation. Centralization of authority in the hands of a Prime Minister with a clear majority in the Commons has caused no dictator baiting. But our representatives have a stubborn reluctance to admit that their own leadership in the crisis has vacillated long enough, and cling pitiably to the purse strings which have of late constituted their chief claim to importance...