Word: latching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article on the Amazon contains the statement that there are 22,767 plant species in the world, of which 19,619 are to be found in the Amazon River watershed. How did you latch on to 22,767 as the figure? The one available to me is 340,000 species...
...best things in The Mansion are the old things: Flem pulling a dirty stratagem to latch on to more property, the heartbreaking description of the raw deal that led ignorant Mink Snopes to murder a rich landholder, the devastating characterization of Huey Long-like Politician Clarence Snopes, who rises from rural bully to candidate for Congress. If the Snopes family is unforgettable, it is because Author Faulkner understands them as deeply as he hates them. And like so many hates, it seems like a first cousin to love. As always, the Faulkner writing has its quota of awkwardness, irritation, downright...
...nerve center of the library, at least as far as the casual observer is concerned, is the reading room on the first floor. It is locked and can only be entered if the curator at the front pushes a button which electronically releases the latch. Anyone presumably--student, faculty member, or accredited and interested scholar-may use the library material, regardless of its rarity...
...only had $25,000 to offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...
...Arab nationalism exists, and only needs encouragement. It may exist, but it is not in control, and so long as incitements to assassination and prodding of hatreds and fears "work" better for Nasser, there was still little in Arab nationalism for the U.S., the U.N. or anyone else to latch onto. A subterranean current of passion and unrest, which might be dammed and might be diverted but cannot be stopped, is still the elemental force in the Middle East...