Word: lingerer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, an encounter with a cooperative source could also have its frustrations: "Working for TIME exercises a certain restraint on being a swinging single. You might meet a bright young thing at 10 p.m., say, who looks as if she'd like to linger over an interview or two, but you have to send your copy to New York that night and go out of town tomorrow. By the time you get back, she's going steady with someone else...
Thus, for all the efforts of Asian leaders, it is likely that the odor of Asian corruption will linger for some time to come, though perhaps not with the ripe impact achieved by an independent legislator in South Korea's National Assembly, when he dumped a can of human excrement over a row of Cabinet ministers he accused of letting smugglers operate in the country. Progress is needed on every front-social, economic, political. Education is an imperative, for a well-informed electorate will hold to closer account the officials of a democratic government. And opposition parties must...
Virtually all of the 62 participating nations have matched the Canadians by ornamenting their own pavilions, the malls in front of them, and often their rooftops with works by native sculptors. Some, like the West Germans, have built entire miniature sculpture gardens, which invite the visitor in to linger. Others have focused attention on one major piece, like Switzerland's Bernhard Luginbuhl's tautly drawn Crossbow, which, while popular with children, elicits nervous twitches from some adults. Said a Binghamton, N.Y., lady: "Everybody's scared of it. They're afraid it's going to move...
...crime rate keeps rising, or seems to, especially in senseless killings and wanton attacks. Fear of the darkened city streets has become a fact of urban life. The memories of bizarre multiple murders linger in the mind-13 people dead in Austin from a sniper's rifle, eight nurses in Chicago killed by a demented drifter. The recollection of the Kennedy assassination remains part of the scene. A burgeoning, largely uncontrolled traffic in guns has put firearms into some 50 million American homes, many of their owners insisting that the weapons are needed for self-defense. In the movies...
...drives a car). And how much sadism his movies get away with. The sadism could be even more serious if Bond weren't amoral. Nobody can entrust his heart, even for a picayune 90 minutes, to a man who doesn't give a damn. So the camera can't linger over the agony he creates (a knife in the back) or escapes (poison in the tea). Bond has our sympathy only in limited amounts...