Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final act enjoy the night air in the garden and idly talk of governmental forms an air raid black-out is announced by the housekeeper and bombs start falling from the sky, the first indications in the play of war. The scene is perfectly lit and staged: the actors languish about the terrace under Ellie and Captain Shotover who sit on a balcony above, and the stage is flooded with a relaxing, yet foreboding dim blue light. The mood has changed in this section: Shaw wrote it during the war, while the beginning of the play was written before...
...decision has become increasingly common. As a result, while many liberal arts colleges languish or go out of business for lack of students and money-at least 300,000 college openings for next fall are still vacant-vocational schools are booming. Among the chief beneficiaries are the nation's 9,000 "proprietary" schools, so called because they make profits for their owners. In ten years, they have grown to about 1,000,000 students, about 10% of the U.S. population enrolled in higher education. Their business now totals an estimated $2 billion a year...
...four years since it seized absolute power, the Baath Party has ruthlessly consolidated its rule. One method was the execution of more than 120 potential opponents, some of whom were strung up in Baghdad's Tahrir Square in grisly public hangings. Other enemies of the regime languish in a Baghdad prison that Iraqis ironically refer to as the "Palace of the End." President Ahmed Hassan Bakr, 57, the cautious army general who was installed to arbitrate between feuding Baath factions, has become a figurehead as Vice President Takriti concentrated power in his own hands. Says a Western diplomat...
...name alone for much longer. Once eminent men have settled down somewhere, it is very difficult to lure them away. Either you develop your own young scholars or you dangle out tempting bribes to attract big names from outside. Harvard must choose its course, unless it wishes to languish like an ancient battleship, a glorious but non-functional reminder of another...
WHILE THE VIETNAM negotiations languish, U.S. intelligence officers in Saigon are predicting that the PRG-North Vietnamese offensive which "failed to take place" in mid-February will occur in July and August or in November at the time of the U.S. presidential elections...