Word: latching
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...future. “Clearly, this is not just about a single day,” the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Fleming said. “The most exciting thing is just the idea of starting a new tradition, something that people will latch onto...
Wendt thinks that while Wilson’s rise through the system may not be meteoric, he may have the talent to one day latch on with a major league team, whether it’s Milwaukee or another club...
Patterson also said that one reason young adults seem to latch on to soft news more than hard news is that they “don’t have an easy way to process the issues of public affairs...
...seven-footer has spent the past five months since his collegiate career ended in training and at scout-attended workouts in a bid to latch on to an NBA roster. His season ended when Harvard’s fall semester concluded in late January...
...students are paralyzed by the impotent sensation of having nothing to fight for. Everything seems either too big (Iraq), too trivial (cage-free eggs), or too intractable (Darfur). In the days of postmodernism, irony, and moral relativism, it’s difficult to find something to latch on to. In the meantime, those dreaming strikers will stay on in Harvard Yard, bang their drums (or Poland Spring water bottles), and cry out to whomever will listen, “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” What they really want is a cause...