Word: clingingly
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...Fans cling to the glory moments of the game's history because they preserve everybody's summer light. Hey. Will you ever forget Yogi Berra fastened to Don Larsen's chest after Larsen's perfect game? Hey. Bobby Thomson's three-run homer against the Dodgers, Ted Williams' homer in his last at bat. Say hey. Willie Mays' catch of Vic Wertz's drive to center in the Polo Grounds...
...mosquito hour, when the grills are cooling and the kids seem to shout louder than ever as they cling to the last light of the day, the people of East Moriches, New York, look up from the decks of their boats and houses and see a 747 flare, break apart and go down in the sea. In a second or two, a typically dank Long Island South Shore night goes from languor to amazement to horror. Private vessels are first to rush toward the site through the Moriches Inlet, which opens to the ocean. Zodiacs from the Coast Guard station...
...eludes, refers to dumb women as "D cups." Or consider the appellation "bimbo," with its implication that a great bod is incompatible with normal intelligence. Possibly also relevant here is the masochistic T shirt that says SPEAK SLOWLY AND CLEARLY; I'M A NATURAL BLONDE. The central fact to cling to in that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less. Once, just a few decades ago, women were expected to be sex objects while men were, in psychologist Herb Goldberg's phrase, "success objects." The pretty nurse landed the doctor; cute...
...could be counted on to maintain stability in his kingdom. But Fahd's health has deteriorated ever since he suffered an embolic stroke last November, and a tug-of-war is already ongoing at the highest levels of the government. Although the King has tried to cling to his throne, senior diplomats in Riyadh expect that he will soon leave the country permanently. This de facto abdication will place authority in the hands of Fahd's half brother, Crown Prince Abdullah, 73, and various members of the royal family are competing for favor under him. Abdullah is a devout Muslim...
Some traditions at Harvard are binding us to a past which is anachronistic. While final clubs cling to their sense of identity, their resistance to progress makes a statement which most of us do not care to debate. We do not like to acknowledge that women do not have the same freedom or status at Harvard as men. Various organizations are denied the enrichment that undoubtedly would be enjoyed with abandonment of tradition...