Word: clingingly
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...removal of the Confederate flag could have been an event to bring South Carolina into the 19th century. A public acknowledgement of the wrongs the South had committed and their willingness to move past bigotry. Instead, this "great" "compromise" has merely reaffirmed the tenacity with which flag supporters cling to the memory of Old Dixie...
...April 1975, the end of the American role in Vietnam, was ignominious and indelible - the last choppers lifting off the American embassy roof, Marines hammering the fingers of desperate Vietnamese trying to cling to the skids, and then the millions of dollars' worth of helicopters being pushed off the flight decks of carriers into the South China Sea to make way for more incoming helicopters. "Numbah Ten," as they said in Vietnam, the rout of the Dollar People...
...trying to scare you, then smiles, gets too close, closer than the permissible 18 in., touches you and gives you a nickname. If that hasn't won you over completely, he moves on to someone else, and you go down on his Suspicious Characters List. In Washington, Republicans cling to the notion that "W" is tougher, and tougher-minded, than the sentimental dad, that he is steelier, a realist who isn't afraid of Democrats, reporters, anyone. It is said so often and by so many people that it's easy to forget the old man could be tough...
...hardly needed these particular experts to tell us that the weight of the average American is ballooning out of control. "We talk incessantly about weight loss," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But obesity levels are going through the roof. We cling to the idea that there is a quick fix." Of course, there isn't, which is why most health experts view Atkins et al. with a healthy dose of skepticism. These diets are extreme, and almost no one is capable of sticking with a no-fat diet, or an all-protein diet or a diet with...
Galluccio was our pick for mayor after the November elections. His willingness to work with business interests to address the housing crunch while other councillors simply try to cling to a system of rent-control which was abolished statewide by voters in 1994 was one of our main reasons for supporting his candidacy. Now that he has been elected, we hope he makes housing his first priority, as he promised the councillors who voted him into office. The only way that Cambridge will be able to cope with the current rent crisis is to build more housing, as much...