Word: linger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethics committee charged with keeping those lines neat and tidy. The unusual $300,000 fine levied against the Speaker by the subcommittee that spent two years investigating him may be intended to restore some sense of propriety. But the bitterness and embarrassment of the Gingrich mess will linger in the marbled corridors of the Capitol for some time to come...
...spirit of inflexible and unreasonable anti-communism--the hysterical spirit of McCarthyism--seems to linger on. This week the Treasury Department threatened to slap a $250,000 fine on Tom Reeves, a professor at Roxbury Community College, if he did not give up the names of nine of his students who recently traveled to Cuba. Their trip to Castro-land was organized by Reeves and capped a semester's worth of study about Cuban economic and social trends...
...downsizing owes, of ailing parents and of swelling prostrates. Even the more marginal among the 40-somethings, the artists and the gays, write about their problems. They tell us of desiccated circles of friends and broken-down coteries. These memories, for all theeir variety, tend to linger on families of one sort or another...
Alomar should have been suspended immediately, but due to the red tape of players' and umpires' unions, this episode will linger until next season. Alomar will go unpunished, for now, because of a clause preventing suspension during the post-season. And, so he takes the field against the Yankees, endures the boos and likely forfeits his participation in next season's opening games...
...They linger in the middle-age memory like invisible friends from childhood--a wisp of melody, an easy rhythm, a naive lyric that sounded like poetry then and rings with poignance today. You hear the old pop songs, and suddenly it's 1960; you are yanked back to the spot where they first assaulted you in all their potent mystery. "When I first heard Ray Charles' Hit the Road, Jack," says Tom Hanks, who was five in the summer of '61, "I literally thought it was about some guy hitting the road with his fist. I remember sitting...