Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who cling to the notion that Mother Advocate leads an incurably rakish and irresponsible existence, should be pleasantly surprised by the September issue, which, among its other virtues, has four features bearing directly on the war. The fears of the editors that their magazine is "a luxury with which the College might well dispense" seem ungrounded in face of the excellence of this issue, and of the fact that now, of all times, colleges should fight to keep a grip on the values of the creative life...
...Times: "Jehovah's Witnesses suffer because they are a small and, to many, an obnoxious sect. The minorities whose civil rights are threatened are always small and, to many, obnoxious. . . . Yet their treatment is the test, and will always be the test, of the sincerity with which we cling to the Bill of Rights. If those of us who belong to the larger groups do not defend the rights of persons with whom we disagree, and whom we may actually detest, we are confessing that we hold our own rights on sufferance, or by our numbers...
More serious than some of the laws themselves, is the large number of States that cling to such restrictive statutes. Twenty-seven have anti-migratory laws which have effectively stopped the free movement of war workers regardless of the importance of their skills to armament industries. Every State has a law "limiting the rights of persons to engage in certain professions." This limits the supply of qualified persons, such as nurses, for war work. So far only New York has modified this statute. In 45 States trucks over a certain size and length are prohibited, which naturally means thousands...
...there is no room for false complacency among Republicans, who don't want to see their Party fall back into the morass of isolationism. Many of their most prominent and respected colleagues still cling to that ideal as a panacca that once given a chance will right all America's wrongs...
...exhibition were pleasantly unconventional, individual, beautifully suited to their California settings. Walls and sliding partitions of transparent glass catered to the Californian's desire to spend half his life out of doors and made adjacent woods and gardens an intimate part of the interior decoration. Built to cling to steep slopes, many of the houses stepped gracefully down terraced levels, with front entrances and garages on their top floors...