Word: clingingness
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For all their emancipation, thinks Anne Lindbergh, modern women have become bonded in a wider enslavement. Women ("the great vacationless class") simply must take time alone if they are to regain this "timeless inner strength" which "we [have] been seduced into abandoning . . . for the temporal outer strength of man. " As...
Louise Scobie (Elizabeth Allan), the wife, is a species of clinging vine; her husband has not cut her loose because he pities her, and feels "a sense of responsibility for what she has become." Pity and the sense of responsibility have become the quiet passions of Scobie's quiet...
An argument ensued, and some of Waly's followers grabbed the lighted torches. One of them stumbled. A tree flared up with a whoosh. In panic, others threw their torches away. In a moment the yard became an oil-soaked pyre. The impregnated sawdust blazed like napalm, clinging to...
Coated Pill. In Wisconsin Dells, Wis., Charles Van Wie attached flowerpots and clinging vines to the parking meters in front of his curio store, explained that he wanted to make his customers happier as they put their nickels in.
The pileups of the football field often seem like minor tussles compared to the half-time refreshment wars. The spectator politely salutes his date, and then disappears into the jungle of concession stands below. He is jostled and stepped on, but with luck he may emerge clinging to a lukewarm...