Word: lingerer
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...Lewis gallery may not have the scope or the full-bodied exuberance of Dickens, but I believe it will linger in our memory a while...
...provides a school year's deferment for those already enrolled in college.) Those who graduate from high school at 17 would be allowed to volunteer, with their parents' consent, so they could serve their hitch before starting college; in no case would they be allowed to linger in high school beyond...
...that a very few will winter-as-usual, of all places, high on craggy skyscrapers in Manhattan. There they have found ledges as bare and precipitous as any mountain falcon eyrie. And they have a year-round food supply in the thousands of fat and sassy Manhattan pigeons who linger below...
...making your arguments forever." Malik said he needed only "one sentence" this time. Jebb's retort was rapier-quick: "I would be delighted to hear a speech of one sentence from the Soviet Union representative." The audience laughed and cheered. Malik flushed. Jebb let the noise linger 45 seconds before he gaveled for silence...
...shows. There were only 52 during 1949-50. The downpour of financial backing available for wartime producing had been cut by production costs to a light drizzle. As almost all shows found it harder to get to Broadway, so the doubtful ones found it harder to linger there until the public could judge them. But it was not wholly a matter for lamentation; rare this season were those exhibits of unutterable drivel that had once turned up every week...