Word: clingingness
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"Spiky Little Towers." Goethe at first chats away like any tourist. There is no outhouse at one inn. The ruins of Herculaneum are a mess, and should have been "excavated methodically by German miners instead of being casually ransacked as if by brigands." He relates a meeting with Emily Hart...
At the same time, Washington kept floating more ideas for "fresh initiatives" to break the Berlin deadlock. Most of them envisioned closer ties between West Germany and West Berlin. In some Washington quarters, there was talk of incorporation of West Berlin into West Germany by official decree, and stationing of...
The students called the newspaper's account highly exaggerated. But Komsomolskaya Pravda insisted that the railroad revel began in Moscow, when the college kids approached train No. 13, "bawling bawdy songs and clinging to each other like sailors during a storm." No sooner had the wheels begun to roll...
"The Brownings, the Webbs, the Garnetts, the Carlyles, Leonard and Virginia Woolf -the English literary couple is a peculiar domestic manufacture, useful no doubt in a country with difficult winters. Before the bright fire at teatime, we can see these high-strung men and women clinging together, their inky fingers...
Often the oldsters take their diminished income and move into a back-street boardinghouse or walk-up flat, clinging to the places they have known, while the winters grow colder and old friends fewer. Often they feel increasingly isolated and rejected as the visits from children become rarer-seeing the...