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Word: clingingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a mysterious half-smile playing across his lips, a trademark red rose in his lapel and gaggles of young women clinging to his words, Trudeau often seemed more a rake than the philosopher-statesman he aspired to be. Still, the rake's progress was remarkable. The son of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: A Stroll, a Sauna and au Revoir | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

"You never know what's going to happen," Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin said just moments after last night's loss, stilt clinging to that faint hope.

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Cornell Crushes Harvard's Ivy Hopes | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

Sometimes a dominant color, like the striking of a great gong, will fill a whole painting as surely as it does a Matisse: so with Moroni's extraordinary Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli. The picture has its allegorical furniture. The ivy clinging to the ruin suggests clan loyalty, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Legacy of La Serenissima | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

How well he succeeded with that message I realized three days later, clinging in the winter air to one of the columns on the Capitol front and watching Kennedy's shoulders below me sway and surge to the cadences of his address. He was listening to distant bugle calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: He Asked Me to Listen to the Debate | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

In the villages of the hills and the mountains beyond, Christians and Druze alike were feeling the effects of the fighting. Dwellings were destroyed, people uprooted, and hundreds reported killed, some of them in incidents that amounted to undocumented slaughter. The Christian village of Beit ed Din, site of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Helping to Hold the Line | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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