Word: clingingness
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Chancellor Helmut Kohl's 12-year-old governing coalition survived major losses in Germany's national election, clinging to a narrow majority in the parliament over the combined opposition. High unemployment, particularly in the country's eastern sector, and swelling public debt contributed to the Christian Democrats' drop in seats...
Council members criticized Davis for her contentiousness. She described council members as arrogant and referred to them as "desperate leaders clinging to power" when they tried to block her petition.
Jessica Fortunato throws herself into the brassy gold pumps of Dotty, the aging theater veteran whose career and savings ride on the success of the tour. Dotty, however, is all too aptly named. Her earnest but inept struggles with the comings and goings of the script's schools of sardine...
Every day, I cry for about an hour when I remember watching someone else give the valedictory address. I wake up at night in a cold sweat from dreams of a class rank list without my name on top. Professors don't want me in their classes. Employers don't...
This story may be in part autobiographical (Lee wrote it with his sister Joie Susannah and his brother Cinque), but the characters and their situation also owe something to 1945's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, in which an immigrant family offered similar characters, though not so large a family...