Word: linger
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...assigned entryways, and from sophomore year in blocking groups of up to eight people (the core group of friends with whom you receive your Housing assignment). For students in a rush, grab-and-go lunches in Loker Commons are the norm, but it's not so unusual either to linger over an empty tray in your House dining hall through three cycles of conversation...
...membership. A woman’s place was, well, in her own club, the Chilton-—not in the den of men, in any event. At Myopia Hunt Club on Boston’s North Shore, women golfers were forbidden to enter through the main door or linger in the lounge...
...exhilaration and confusion, when scurrying professionals with Palm Pilots checked their portfolios from speeding cabs. When 24-year-old bosses in baggy khakis told 50-year-olds in pressed suits to take a hike. The cheese will be somewhere else in 10 years, but its faintly moldy odor will linger...
...Thursday, 10 p.m., Downtown Crossing, red line. Barely a dozen passengers linger at this nearly silent stop. A scruffy- looking gentleman zips up his guitar case. Sergei Alexeev heads home; there is seemingly no more money to make for the night. Rather than bless his crowds with songs of old Mother Russia and Stoli, this immigrant with a thick accent strictly sticks to the guitar. For three years he has played in subways full time. This 36 year-old hope to get noticed and eventually belong to a big-time band...
Bogart and Bacall. Tracy and Hepburn. Homer and Marge. Rock- well and Conger? It's doubtful that last pair will linger long in the hearts and minds of the public, despite the fact that their entire courtship was broadcast, for our amusement and amazement, on national television. Of all the women in all the world--or at least of the 50 finalists willing to trade dignity for fast money--he chose her. Isn't that romantic...