Word: clingingness
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Crippled as it is, Paterson cannot solve its own problems. Urban renewal, the blind arm of the federal bureaucracy, cannot save it--Kramer's experience with HUD, which Norwood documents, demonstrates the insensitivity of federal aid to cities. But revenue sharing, which put money in the hands of the people...
In Bangladesh, there are barely rations to provide even gruel for the starving in Dacca's crowded refugee camps. Children are so emaciated-their flesh clinging to their brittle bones-that they almost look like deformed infants. Shortages of vitamin A, iron and iodine in India and Bangladesh are...
Ford seems to understand this and he is clinging to his old lifestyle. He uses Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco, sometimes out of a can. After Daughter Susan and Photographer David Kennerly gave Ford his new pup, Liberty, the President stuffed some dog biscuits into his pockets. As plain folks...
The front-page picture showed a terrified black man clinging to a railing as whites clawed at his shirt. Headlines summarized the sorry situation: SCHOOL SITUATION WORSENS, VIOLENCE SPREADS, BLACKS URGE FEDERAL ACTION. It might have been Birmingham or Biloxi in the 1960s-but it was Boston, last week.
Difficult as those tasks may be, certain heretical aspects of the game as it is played in my ballpark today make historic diversion attractive. Even for a dyed-in-the-wool rooter, double-knit uniforms, artificial turf, and blazer-and-turtleneck bedizened umpires all need at least ten years aging...