Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first clause has always remained obscure to me. . . . But the other two clauses are luminous, and have taught me from the first to conceive omnificent power and eternal truth. ... I have reasserted them, in my mature philosophy. . . . They belong to human sanity, to human orthodoxy; I wish to cling to that, no matter from what source its expression may come, or encumbered with what myths. The myths dissolve: the presuppositions of intelligence remain and are necessarily confirmed by experience, since intelligence awoke precisely when sensibility began to grow relevant to external things...
...with masks.) Gas attacks can, of course, seriously hamper military or civilian movement. But on the other hand war gases are readily blown or washed away by wind, rain and snow, and they may be blown back in the faces of their users. The blister gases (mustard and Lewisite) cling to solid surfaces for days or weeks. To an advancing army they would be a dangerous nuisance...
Abaft: what you cling to after abandoning ship...
...second of these fantasmagerias (whew!) will be the mass Officer evacuation from "the big city" of Cambridge. The trains, busses, and taxis will be jammed with the happy exodus, while wailing hostesses pout fretfully as they cling to the walls of their respective USO, AOC and various and sundry organizations of recreation...
Then, while their wives cling to one another in a dreary hotel room, the boys zoom off for combat overseas. Winged Victory ends in the South Pacific, with a Jap raid that explodes upon a camp Christmas shindig, sends the flyers into action...