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Word: languishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nothing remarkable!" they shouted angrily, and began to rain questions on the old man. "You have let us languish, despair, perish. Why, why? . . . You have given us sun and gladness, you have let us be drunk with the loveliness of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Swede on a Tightrope | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

While officers may sometimes need books for a longer period then students, a year is too long to let Widener's charges languish on some official's shelf. Besides keeping books from circulation for a long period, an office may depart on a leave of absence and take his little collection with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Among the Missing | 11/17/1953 | See Source »

...Russian government is carrying on internally against the U.S. One of our few opportunities of bringing the truth to the Russian people has been Amerika. Knowingly, in the face of the fantastic lies about us which the Russian government are feeding their people, should it be permitted to languish? Isn't this, rather, the moment to use every possible means to increase its effectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 14, 1952 | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

During the week, the Pond is a place to study by, cluster to for a sunburn, and row on. Weekends, couples languish around it, properly dreamy, canoe on the Pond, occasionally go strolling through nearby Paradise Woods...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Smith... A Little Bit of Everything | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

...hardly necessary to say that I am consumed with envy for all college students, particularly Harvard Men. From the Siberia of these United States, camp Polk, Louisiana, I salute You All. Surrounded by playful armadilloes, malevolent coral snakes, sand, rain, mud and Okies, I languish, forgotten and ignored. Quite seriously, though, the New Army is no better than any other previous one. My considered advice to everyone who has not come under the arm-garters of our communal Uncle Sam is to raise hell until the axe falls. It is not a funny axe, nor is it a funny Army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes From Underground | 1/11/1951 | See Source »

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