Word: languishes
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Other students will take laundry out of a dryer and put it in a plastic bag, but only if the owner is more than a few minutes late in returning to the laundry room. And some have no compunctions at all; they will happily allow freshly-washed whites to languish on dirty washer tops for hours...
...revolution," are badly compromised. Prostitution, that humiliating hallmark of the Batista years, is back in force; dollar legalization has undermined social equality; the centralized economy has yet to deliver basic necessities to most citizens. Unemployment, not known for decades, looms for hundreds of thousands of redundant workers. Dissidents languish in jail...
After this brief vacation, the implication seems to be, bonded Harvard and Yale students return to our important business while the rest of our compatriots continue to languish in their frivolous lives. Certainly snobbery of this sort is a blemish, like flatulence or a stain on a shirt, that plagues many of us from time to time. But as with those unpleasantries, it really is nicer for everyone if we don't flaunt it in public. --Aron R. Fischer...
...magic charms or amulets. Such aspects were profoundly embarrassing to the 19th century founders of Reform Judaism. Reform together with the similarly rationalist Conservative movement and modern Orthodoxy came to dominate American Judaism. After the Holocaust wiped out many of its key teachers, Jewish mysticism seemed destined to languish as a superstitious whisper...
...creature. A writer once said of Ezra Pound, "he is a great poet who has never written a great poem." In the world of lyric prose, Nicholson neither leads nor follows. Rather, he occupies that awkward region in between--usually above reproach, seldom awe-inspiring--where many decent writers languish in anonymity. Bleeding London is, well, bloody awful...