Word: clingingly
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Canadians may choose to cling to the cult that was Pierre Elliott Trudeau: yet--class act or not--the truth is the country has been itching for a change of scene...
...trial for "crimes against the Lebanese people." On the other hand, Syria, which is helping to arm Gemayel's foes, is believed amenable to letting the President stay on, and it invited a revised plan which the Saudis proposed and conveyed to Beirut. If Gemayel does cling to office, it may be as the figurehead leader of a drastically reshaped government heavily influenced by Syria and including Muslim forces sharply hostile...
...homes that our working people live in without fantasizing what it would be like to have Soviet leaders with me and be able to point down and say, 'That's where the workers in America live; they live like that; how long are you going to cling to that system of yours that can't provide anything like that for your people...
...building a fortress nation second to none. As they choose a successor to Andropov, the old guard may feel reluctant to pass this awesome legacy to an untried younger generation, as if the transfer were somehow not inevitable. But the paradox remains that the longer the old men cling to power, the more they endanger the very thing they have sought to preserve: stability. ? ByJohn Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof /Moscow and Raji Samghabadi/New York, with other bureaus
...matured substantially," says Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, chairman of Reagan's re-election committee. "In the early days, he'd cling to those note cards like a life preserver...