Word: lingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magnificent baritone was not merely a voice. It was an orchestra of enormous range and power, and when it was silenced last week, its graceful sound seemed to linger on for millions who had heard it on film and stage. Homer must have known someone very much like Richard Burton. Describing Odysseus' effect on an audience in a faraway land, the poet wrote: "He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear his voice, that list'ning still they seemed to hear...
...With slim legs tucked tightly under her in the fashion of the day, she sailed over 19 ft. at college and was bound for the Helsinki Games in 1952 until a hurdle injury interfered. Evelyn had to stop competing at 20, and all these years later, some incomplete feelings linger. There are no spectators in the Lewis family, but the varied athletic directions of the children suggest a reasonable tolerance for individuality. Mackie, 30, enjoyed track, football, baseball, almost all games in season. Cleve, 28, played soccer at Brandeis University, even professionally for a time. The third son, Frederick Carlton...
...brave new world, where those who are 65 are put into a crematorium. And I speak as someone who is 70 years old with a husband who is 82. When I am called back to God, I do not want any bleeding heart saying I have to linger in the valley of the shadow of death for days or possibly months...
...playwright sometimes substituted repetition for inspiration in his prolonged dying fall. He could seem like a drunk at a party who makes the other guests linger while he tries to find the point of a tale that is too long in the telling. But in recounting how Josie Hogan (Kate Nelligan) and James Tyrone Jr. (Ian Bannen) live out their 18-hour love affair (all the way from reluctant acknowledgment that it exists to equally reluctant renunciations), O'Neill created one of his most moving statements about how reality and dreams betray each other...
...just didn't want the sadness to linger over Co Captain Ken Plutnicki now. Instead we wanted to remember John in a happy vein...