Word: lingerer
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...traffic noise mounts to unbearable decibels, one of the most inviting oases-better even than an air-conditioned movie-is the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art. There, only two blocks north of towering Rockefeller Center, the visitor may walk in peace amidst birches, hornbeams and willows, linger by cool reflecting pools, or sit on convenient benches, looking at sculpture...
...Linger longer, Queen of Tonga...
...Linger longer...
...20th century, nations have increasingly tended to meet inflationary pressure as the Roman Empire met it: by fleeing from freedom, taking refuge in authority. In deep, sudden crises, direct controls are sometimes necessary. But to let them linger on after the need for them has passed (and they always tend to linger on), or to impose them when there is no clear and present need, is to incur the danger that they will become a way of life, as in the Roman Empire. Any time a nation can shake off the shackles and prove that freedom does not bring...
Tradition has not been abandoned entirely. Wan and weary maidens still linger at the scene of their betrayal. Here & there a lonely house still groans with memories of ancient wrongs-though in one story the trouble is that the house is not haunted, which creates an unhappy state of "psychic emptiness...