Word: clingingly
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...many dead bodies he's seen. Well, now he knows what the hell's wrong with me. But at least I can keep a beat. If music be the food of love, then salsa be the messy leftovers: A roomful of strangers, all different ages and sizes, forced to cling together and sway their hips in sync. There is no better way to beat the passion out of both the dance and the dancers. The Gentleman holds me at foxtrot distance and lets me lead; the Groper's idea of sexy is clutching me so close I can count...
Myat San speaks highly of the close bonds developed in the army, referring to it as “the brotherhood.” Together all of the time, he says, the young men cling to one another—both figuratively and literally (Myat San’s friend once grabbed his hand just in time to save him from a mudslide...
...Gore rejects the central criticism that has become part of the 2000-campaign conventional wisdom: that he blew what might have been a peace-and-prosperity landslide because he refused to cling to Clinton's stained legacy. The day the Supreme Court decision came down awarding Bush the presidency, Hillary Clinton offered a poignant analysis of the choice they both had faced. Gore lost, the New York Senator-elect told friends, because he couldn't separate his personal anguish over Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky from his own self-interest...
There’s one now—he’s Fenwick’s 6’6 junior prep All-American named Corey Maggette, and right now he and his teammates cling to a two-point lead against their conference rival. Those folks who felt that tonight’s game would have held much more promise had Brother Rice’s Quentin Richardson—another legend in diapers—not transferred out have found the game to be one of the best of the year anyway...
...machines that responded to rewards and punishments. Babies clung to their mothers not for affection but because mothers provided food rewards. Using baby monkeys and artificial "mother" dolls in a series of experiments at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in the 1950s and '60s, Harlow proved the babies would cling to the dolls even when food was offered elsewhere. Love, which other psychologists had dismissed as irrelevant and scientifically meaningless, was in fact the linchpin of mental health...