Word: clingingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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( Older people, once considered emotionally frail, are now regarded as exceptionally hardy. Their wealth of experience gives them a broader perspective to draw on. Children, on the other hand, appear to be very fragile. Psychologist Bill Locke of Texas Tech, who studied the aftereffects of a 1970 tornado in Lubbock...
For many people, the idea of the great houses of Britain induces reveries of a civilized Eden. Never mind that most of these establishments are now defunct or shells of their former selves; the graceful existence they once accommodated, celebrated in novels and films, lives on. Morning strolls across rolling...
While these journalists share a commitment to cover Latin communities here and abroad, they are divided over which language is the most effective vehicle for reaching their audience. Manuel Casiano, founder of the Puerto Rican magazine Imagen, favors Spanish, noting that 97% of Hispanic adults living in the U.S. today...
In our relations with nature, we've been playing a deadly game of cowboys and Indians. We all started as Indians. Many primitive cultures -- and the indigenous peoples still clinging today to their pockets of underdevelopment -- regarded the earth and all its creatures as alive. Nature was a whistling wind...
"You understand," He turned to me. I returned his look with a blank stare. I was clinging to the back wall, my brain slowly shifting focus from intense concentration on maintaining my balance in a moving object to the realization that someone was speaking to me.