Word: lingerer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks like a typical case of power failure or faulty instruments," said one. Another possibility: pilot error. Captain Per-Erik Hallonquist, although a veteran of 7,000 hours and countless jungle flights, had been on continuous duty for 36 hours. But some doubt and suspicion would probably always linger over the wrecked DC-6 in the woods outside Ndola...
Toward sundown. Announcer Paul Kal-linger hunches on the edge of a straight-backed chair, unplugs his mellifluous bass voice, lets it pour into the microphone. "How do you do? How do you do? How do you do? If you've just joined us. we're sure glad to have you out there listening to our program-Gospel Request Time." The first request is a hillbilly item called / Saw the Light, and when it is over, Kallinger uses the light for a transition into a five-minute commercial: "I hope many people will see the light tonight...
...have the mills of U.S. justice been so clogged. In federal district courts, 6,200 cases have been pending for at least three years; in state courts it now takes about a year for the average case to be heard; it is not uncommon for personal-injury cases to linger on dockets for five years. Chief...
...rocket's rich catch. One possible theory is that micrometeorites may have electric charges of the same sign-either positive or negative-when they arrive from space. The charge may accumulate near the top of the atmosphere, slow down later-arriving particles by electrostatic repulsion and make them linger there...
When the air flows past an airplane's wings, it slips sideways past the tips and swirls into two twisting eddies that linger in the plane's wake for as long as a minute. Even after the airplane that made them is miles away, the eddies spin with surprising violence. A modern swept-wing jetliner, flying at 220 m.p.h. as it slows down approaching an airport, generates two twirling cornucopias of air with cores 22 ft. in diameter and outside layers rotating at 35 m.p.h...