Word: clung
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Leaving the hospital after knee surgery, QUEEN ELIZABETH II was greeted by what the Times of London described as an "audible intake of breath" from onlookers. And who could blame them? The woman was wearing pants. In her 50 years on the throne, QE2 has clung to a conservative wardrobe of skirts and dresses. Her pantsuit prompted reams of commentary, from approval of her accessories (pearls, silk scarf) to interviews with Peter Enrione, the man who designed the ensemble. A scramble to uncover the last time the Queen appeared publicly in trousers turned up a photo from 1945, when...
With just eight minutes left in the game, Northeastern still deperately clung to a one point lead. But freshman guard Jessica Holsey—who scored 10 points off the bench—sank a three that put Harvard...
...time, conventional wisdom held that animals, human and otherwise, were essentially machines that responded to rewards and punishments. Babies clung to their mothers not for affection but because mothers provided food rewards. Using baby monkeys and artificial "mother" dolls in a series of experiments at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in the 1950s and '60s, Harlow proved the babies would cling to the dolls even when food was offered elsewhere. Love, which other psychologists had dismissed as irrelevant and scientifically meaningless, was in fact the linchpin of mental health...
...Gnocchi—n. Italian. Small dumplings traditionally constructed from flour, semolina (the fine, hard parts of wheat) and potatoes. Most gnocchi are either boiled or baked, ensuring a soft, paste-like texture. i.e.: Donatella bit into her gnocchi and then scoffed when the ill-prepared dumplette clung to the roof of her mouth...
...while my encounter with Sept. 11 was so limited, I found myself bandying about terms exhausted by their own size: words like democracy, capitalism, poverty, Islam and America. Although I took part in the troubling discourse, I grew wary of analysis that clung to these terms, and I grew silent out of fear of saying meaningless things myself...