Word: clung
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...Freud still clung to the mechanical and material scientism of his age. He constructed a new. detailed, machinelike scheme of the mind. The steam that made the machine run was sexual energy or libido. In Freud's view, the unconscious was cluttered with emotional material, commonly thought of as forgotten but actually repressed because of a conflict between sex-powered drives and personal or social
...began shelling the tiny island from two destroyers, four gunboats and a swarm of patrol boats. At noon 60 Red planes-Russian-built light bombers and fighter-bombers, with MIG jets for top cover-began plastering the Nationalists with 500-lb. bombs. Under this rain of fire, the garrison clung to its burrows; while they were holed up, the invaders came ashore from a swarm of armored, motorized junks...
...audiences, someone said, and to give more stars a chance to appear. But was it really more interesting that way, or just more confusing? The young man was not sure he particularly wanted to see this sort of show again. True, his date was delighted and clung tightly to his arm. But as for him, he was very, very tired...
Back home, the Indian newspapers, instead of being disappointed, seemed to be glad that Communist hospitality had not turned Nehru's head. Despite Red China's "power politics," commented the influential Times of India approvingly, Nehru had clung to "non-alignment...
...favor. He is running under the aegis of Democratic Governor Frank Lausche, who appointed him to the Senate as Bob Taft's replacement. And, in Ohio, the Lausche coattails are second to none-not even Dwight Eisenhower's, to which former Taftman George Bender has clung with might and main. As of last week, Ohio looked like a coattail tossup...