Word: linger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, millions of illiterate Latin Americans had become aware of the existence of France. The memory of De Gaulle may linger, and in the future it may contribute to this or that Latin American leader's independent stance toward the U.S. But for the present, most of De Gaulle's hosts had, if anything, made a special point of their hemispheric solidarity with...
...high command . . . must be to inflame every minority grievance, to stir up the dregs of our national spirit, to make respectable the emotions and prejudices of which we are secretly ashamed. This will be a campaign to sicken decent and thoughtful people, and the bitterness it will distill will linger long in our national life." The Chicago Daily News found that "for the zealots," Goldwater "has the invaluable ability to give a latent, fear-born prejudice a patina of respectability and plausibility." To the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Goldwater coalition is a coalition of Southern racists, county-seat conservatives...
...project was first suggested in December 1962 by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's office, which gave it to the Navy for administrative development. The Navy came up with some stiff specifications for such a plane. It must have a top speed of 316 m.p.h., be able to linger over a target for two hours, clear a 50-ft. barrier on takeoff within 800 ft. of its starting point, operate out of sod fields, off gravel roads and, when equipped with pontoons, from water. It would require two engines so that it could still fly if one were knocked...
What delight it is to linger over William Sheldon's treatise on aerial navigation (Eng 5508.50.3) written in the middle of the 19th century, or John Ranking's "Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century, by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants" (London...
...effects of New York's 114-day newspaper strike, longest in the city's history, linger on. Last week: - The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of the Publishers Association of New York to shut down all papers if any one is struck. The publishers' move had been challenged by Local No. 6 of the New York Mailers Union, on the grounds that its members were not a party to the strike and that they had been locked out of their jobs. But the Appeals court, affirming an earlier National Labor Relations Board ruling, found such...