Word: clingingness
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They pulled a gasping tanker from the spot where the bubbles boiled up, and another, and another with a broken arm. The lieutenant who had been leading his tank was safe, clinging to the bridge, wet to the waist, but the sergeant had been crushed between the two tanks.
From the 20,000-sq.-mile blighted area, refugees are streaming in hundreds of thousands along two main routes: the Lunghai railway and the trail of the old Peking-Hankow railway. The Government has placed a free train daily for refugee disposal along the Lunghai railway, which is carrying out...
The cuckoo problem that most deeply engrosses Ornithologist Baker and others is: How does the cuckoo get the egg into the nest? This problem is posed by the fact that some wise birds build nests with obstructive entrances for the express purpose of keeping out cuckoos. The cuckoo has developed...
And Boston, the Yardling who caught Comeford's fourth period heave with two Quaker defenders clinging to him, was promoted to Team B, in place of ace punter Wally Flynn. Boston's thumb is still in a cast, but the injury didn't seem to brother him Saturday.
This is a story of a girl who learns, through a series of harsh disillusionments, that what she called "clinging to her ideals" was really a mulish effort to hang on to a happy childhood. As a first novel (winner of the Avery Hopwood Award) it is mature and thoughtful...