Word: clingingness
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Thus, Backman believes, organisms riding on cosmic particles or meteorites might fly safely through celestial space. He admits they would meet a great hazard when they hit the earth's atmosphere, where atmospheric friction would heat the particles or meteorites enough to destroy all organisms clinging to them. But...
. . . small groups, clinging together for support during blows, from which come murmurs . . . "Potato, Idaho . . . Sunstroke, Texas . . . Are there Indians in Wyoming? . . . It goes down to 20 below in Minnesota . . . Yes and they have tornadoes in Kansas! . . . There isn't a man left between the Alleghenies and the Rockies anyway."
White-knuckled Nazis, ignoring their ship' last moment, were clinging to the Spencer's ropes. The first taken aboard flopped on the deck, shivering uncontrollably in his wet clothes. Another merely clung to a line, moaning and making no effort to help himself. "Hold your water, bub, we...
Rumanian Paradox. Still clinging to the Germans is Rumania's Dictator Ion Antonescu. But the Rumanians' sickening losses in Russia have aroused violent opposition. Jails are crammed with 200,000 political prisoners.
Reorganization of the Turkish Cabinet last fortnight produced substantial evidence that Turkey's ruling clique, while clinging to strictly pro-Turkish neutrality, was ready to wager on Allied victory.