Word: lingerer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ducky, we mustn't be late!" she exclaimed. Husband Tony was clearly of a mind to linger among the Smithsonian Institution's automotive relics...
Winkle, dinkle, muckle, muck. Linger longly, Lulu, Lou. Yippee, yoohoo, heehaw, jigsaw. Stringle, strangle, jingle jangle, mourning we'll come following through. Beat Yale...
Given a one-joke script, Director George Abbott whipped it into a happy frenzy that survived for three seasons on Broadway. Movie Director Bud Yorkin borrows bits of Abbott's inventiveness, but his own method is to linger over a gag until all the life has run out of it. He belabors a drunk scene, overestimates the humor in the plight of Ford's married but childless daughter (Connie Stevens) who browbeats her callow husband (Jim Hutton) into orgies of planned parenthood. There is something unwholesomely prudish about a hip young modern who greets the revelation...
...best museum in the world," says U.S. Architect Philip Johnson, who has built many museums himself. It may well be. However, the most convincing testimonial comes from the thousands of Mexican villagers who trek there from all over the country to marvel at their heritage. And, as they linger around an inscrutable stone god or by a latticed temple, they, too, become part of Mexico's living museum...
From such examples certain axioms emerge: 1) there is no single world opinion, but many different ones, conditioned by blocs, regions, self-interest and shibboleths; 2) all sides use world opinion to bolster their own preconceived ideas; 3) while some memories linger longer than others, world opinion subsides quickly in the face of accomplished fact, and it does not argue indefinitely with success; 4) the free world, because it is free, is more sensitive to adverse opinion than the Communists...