Word: clingingness
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Even if the signatures of Harry Truman, George Marshall, Louis Bromfield, Fiorello LaGuardia, Ginger Rogers are not "beautifully" penned, they at least have in common mental maturity, individualism, the desire and the capacity for absorbing new ideas, more-than-average flexibility. Thus their scripts differ from those of our contemporaries...
He moved pretty fast. Sometimes he got lifts, sharing the rear hump of a burro with a friendly peon or clinging to the bouncing tailboard of a truck. He walked a lot, too, and one by one he put the boundaries behind him-Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico. Six months...
¶ San Francisco had an uproar over Mayor Roger Lapham's proposal to scuttle the famed cable cars which have clanged up & down the city's steep hills since 1873. Riders, jolting on the hard, wooden seats, clinging perilously to the outside steps, voted 9-to-1 to...
By sheer multiplication, the bacteria push oil particles off the grains of oilsand. They dissolve limestone, making the formation more porous. They generate carbon dioxide, which pushes oil particles ahead of it by gas pressure. The bacteria also produce a "detergent" (soaplike substance) which makes clinging oil films gather into...
"Momism," of both the clinging and domineering varieties, is a widespread, "hereditary" U.S. disease, says Dr. Strecker, for which the nation is paying in general immaturity. "Instead of censuring mom for her shortcomings, we encourage her with misplaced adoration."