Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, I'm in love with it," says MacFarlan, commenting that it's the sort of car that makes "small children cling to their mothers' skirts...
...Piobaireachd was anglicized to pibroch in the 18th Century but Gaelic purists still cling to the ancient spelling...
...worse than that, he adds. With no philosophical coherence at the top, faulty and contradictory Western ideologies have been at war, like the societies that cling to them. Professor Northrop wants to find a worldwide philosophical formula that will synthesize the best of East and West. He does not believe the answer lies in the West going off the deep end into the mysticism of the East (as Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood and other Anglo-American intellectuals seem to have done). Nor does he believe that the East should drop its own culture for Westernisms...
...instance, she always rides in the forward jump-seat of her Daimler, coupling an old-fashioned inclination to see where she is going with an equally old-fashioned desire to sit up straight. And her unswerving devotion to prewar (World War I, of course) conventions leads her to cling rather impishly to her hat styles and to carry a parasol whenever possible...
...press, consistently more liberal than the Government, gleefully belabored Shidehara's "do-nothing" administration. Cried Tokyo's influential Yomiuri Hochi: "The pursuit of those responsible for the war will soon be made by the people themselves ... up to the Emperor himself if they continue to cling to their positions without any thought of repentance...