Word: clingingness
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Born 60 years ago of U.S. missionary parents in the Chinese coastal city of Chefoo, Robert McCann considered China his home. When the Japanese overran the country in the late 19305, he lingered on, clinging to his auto business in Tientsin. Interned after Pearl Harbor, he was repatriated in an...
Cole admits that people who become cells in a unit of macrolife will have to surrender many cherished human freedoms. But so, he insists, will people who stay behind on the jampacked, atom-threatened earth. Except for unprogressive folk who insist on clinging to individual identity and the traditional attributes...
After doing his best to keep his hometown troubles out of the papers (he urged newsmen not to cover the school integration story for three days), New Orleans' handsome Mayor de Lesseps ("Chep") Morrison made news himself in Manhat tan. In town to attend a conference of U.S. mayors...
The jet swoops past the great city rising from the water's edge toward the towering Peak-shipyards, smoking factories, villas drowned in gardens, balconied tenements, squatters' huts clinging to bare rock, bright new skyscrapers still wrapped in bamboo scaffolding. Coming in low over rooftops fluttering with blue...
Time and again, Kennedy needled Richard Nixon for clinging to Ike's coattails, challenged the Vice President waspishly to bring Ike along for a fifth TV debate. In California, Arizona and Illinois he gibed at the fact that Nixon, Ike, Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge and Governor Nelson...