Word: linger
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shouted louder: more shooters, please! During the Team USA meltdown in Athens, every weekend warrior with a backyard jump shot said, " Put me on the team! " And these guys had a point; more than anything, the U.S. needed a stand-still shooter, a guy whose sole role was to linger 23 feet from the basket and fire away. With defenders collapsing on America's more athletic stars, wide-open shots are easy to find overseas...
...Still, the negative images linger, and the city is facing a difficult and protracted recovery. More than half the population is still in exile, and huge swaths of New Orleans remain largely abandoned while residents wait for rebuilding money to arrive. Citywide some 60% of local businesses have most likely not reopened, according to a survey by Louisiana State University...
LISA WHELCHEL The Facts of Life Shopaholic Blair is now a prayeraholic writer who dispenses Christian parenting tips. Her latest book, Taking Care of the Me in Mommy, suggests making time to "linger in the word and tarry in prayer...
...called for improvements in medical care. Because infected mosquitoes tend to bite at night, when people are home, an indoor spraying program using the pesticide bendiocarb was launched to interrupt the cycle of transmission. (Small amounts of the chemical are applied directly to walls where mosquitoes like to linger.) At the same time, the Ministry of Health of Equatorial Guinea introduced the use of artemisinin-based combination therapy, the new standard of treatment for malaria in the underdeveloped world...
...linger in the natural remedy aisle; it's...natural. Even this pill-averse orthopedist will take an echinacea or two if I feel a sore throat coming on. But there is no uniform governmental or academic scrutiny of these things so don't believe everything you read or hear about them - most of it is coming from the folks who are selling...