Word: linger
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...city center has been so zealously made over by each generation that little remains of the early buildings of Sydney Cove. Traces linger-Argyle Place in Millers Point and Susannah Place in The Rocks date from the early 19th century; further west, toward Parramatta, now the demographic center of Greater Sydney, stand Australia's only 18th century buildings, Elizabeth Farm and Experiment Farm Cottage. It seems miraculous that any of them have survived so many waves of reinvention...
...bigger muscles) and testosterone (stronger muscles) is especially appealing. The drug form of hGH sneers at those who would seek it out: after injection, it has a half-life of only 17 to 45 minutes, so it flushes from the system in short order while its effects linger. Although it is a banned substance, it will not be tested for in Sydney...
...Smoke gets in Your Eyes 2. Why? - Annie Lennox 3. Linger - Cranberries 4. Save Me - Aimee Mann 5. Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 6. In All the Right Places - Lisa Stansfield 7. Time of Your Life - Green Day 8. Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen 9. I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt 10. Landslide - Fleetwood...
...Chick's urging, he put to paper his ideas on the life of the mind. Ravelstein became instantly famous, in the U.S. and overseas. And so, to return the favor, he has asked Chick to write his memoirs. He was traditional, conservative and gay. The book tries not to linger on his homosexuality-Ravelstein certainly didn't consider it the defining aspect of his personality-but since he is dying of AIDS, it is rather unavoidable...
Memories of uncompleted college assignments tend to linger. As an addition to the usual ceremonies that surrounded my graduation, I inaugurated an award given to that senior who, counting all courses in all four years, was, as he received his degree, farthest behind in the assigned reading. It was presented to a classmate of mine who had concentrated on courses in the Russian novel and, by my calculations, had not read a total of 356,000 pages. Twenty years later, I happened to pass the winner on the street, and the poor fellow still had a haunted look...