Word: linger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the problem for first-years observing Passover continues to linger, a solution for the senior brunch has been devised by seniors working in conjunction with the dining services...
Vendler also says that the historical restriction of literature to an educated upper class continues to linger to this day, leading to the perception that poetry is an elitist art form. And Engell suggests that the cultural milieu of the past few decades may have been more heavily "saturated with cinema and politics" than with literature of any kind, leaving even less room for poetry...
...knives, boxing equipment and dusty copies of Bruce Lee videos. The latter retailer is one of two storefront businesses that remain from the street's previous incarnation. The other is a narrow little wedge of lunch counter; yellowed signs that read NO LOITERING and PLEASE PAY WHEN SERVED linger as warnings to a pre-urban renewal clientele...
...Kansas City--Good starting staff. Acquired Jay Bell, Jeff King, Jermaine Dye and Chili Davis. Questions still linger about Jeff Montgomery's shoulder...
Charles Krauthammer missed the opportunity of a lifetime in his speculation about the potential of cloning [SPECIAL REPORT, March 10]. He implied that we might clone Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr. or even Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps we could use bits of dna that linger in their remains. We could raise the clones in structured isolation and see what they would do. If dna survives the decomposition of the human body, then we should examine the ultimate cloning possibility. Let's scrape the Shroud of Turin for whatever tiny bits of human matter may still cling to that cloth, clone...