Word: linger
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...atmosphere is never really relaxed. The staff plays to the peer pressure that already exists in this group of macho, Type A personalities. "If you're lying in your own blood at 30,000 feet, it's your own fault," warned a physical-training instructor, letting the words linger for a few seconds. "If you can't stay in the fight, thousands will...
...couldn’t linger on the ice like he did on the field four years before. He wasn’t on the team anymore. He had a deadline to meet. So, he got his one-on-one interview with Smith and left...
...what Swedes eat, who don't eat what the Japanese eat, who don't eat what Croatians eat. When families leave their home countries and settle elsewhere, the cultural feathering they bring with them--language, dress, music--is often shed within a generation. But the foods linger. "The last part of a culture that gets lost are the food ways," says Barrett Brenton, nutritional anthropologist at St. John's University in New York City. "We find comfort in our cuisines...
...there you have the official winners. But there is a parallel Cannes competition: it is screened in each viewer?s mind. A critic sees 30 to 50 films in ten days, and as the festival wears on the good ones nudge the bad ones aside to linger a while in the memory. Here, then, are the awards for Cannes 2004 from one critic who, since 1973, has spent 31 lovely fortnights in this dream palace on the Cote d?Azur...
Despite her aversion to all things Princetonian, Chase heads south to New Jersey for a weekend-long economics conference and—at the behest of her mentor, Princeton Afro-American Studies Department chair Earl Stokes—agrees to linger in town to guest-lecture in his undergraduate class Monday morning. Nikki’s long weekend quickly turns nightmarish after Stokes dies in a mysterious blaze. As she hunts for Stokes’ murderer, Nikki finds that blacks and whites in Princeton are related by blood ties formed through a slew of adulterous trysts...