Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many more tedious and barren stretches, but they are frequently relieved by Novelist Compton-Burnett's most characteristically brilliant qualities. There are flashes of darting spite ("I hope I am not disturbing you at your luncheon, Mrs. Cassidy." "Thank you, Miss James. It is so kind to cling to the hope") and devastating responses to thoughtless queries ("Why should not school be an open and natural life, like any other?" "Like what other?" said Mr. Firebrace). There are also numerous succinct summings-up whose blandness is more savage than savagery itself: "Maria had also a vein of justice...
...Still more wretched than the dispossessed are the peasants who cling to their village. Thousands of them were impressed into the guerrilla forces. Some died horribly in the mountains, some who would not fight were penned like cattle in Albanian and Bulgarian camps...
...most of the U.S., "squash" is still only a vegetable. But in some large cities, most notably Philadelphia, Boston and New York, it is a fast, sweaty court game for young men, and the middle-aged who cling to the illusion of physical fitness. A businessman who has no afternoons for golf can squeeze in a game of squash racquets after work, shed a few pounds, get home in time for dinner. At Yale, about five times as many students play it on the university's 86 courts (costing some $300,000) as any other sport...
...many parts of the country, such as the Northeast, there was never much erosion, and most of this has been checked. The cotton-growing South, notorious for its stripped and deserted farms, has had a real agricultural rebirth. There are still obstinate farmers who cling to land-wrecking practices (and will surely pay for it), but the face of the South has changed. If Jeeter Lester were to shamble back to Tobacco Road, he'd never know the place...
...biggest scientific fish in Communism's net, outside Russia, is British Biologist J.B.S. Haldane. Last week Haldane's scientific colleagues were watching closely to see if he would cling to the party line, recently clamped around some very dubious genetics (TIME, Sept. 6). Most scientists suspected that Haldane would have to go back on either his Communism or his science...