Word: lingerer
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Memories of uncompleted college assignments tend to linger. As an addition to the usual ceremonies that surrounded my graduation, I inaugurated an award given to that senior who, counting all courses in all four years, was, as he received his degree, farthest behind in the assigned reading. It was presented to a classmate of mine who had concentrated on courses in the Russian novel and, by my calculations, had not read a total of 356,000 pages. Twenty years later, I happened to pass the winner on the street, and the poor fellow still had a haunted look...
...assigned entryways, and from sophomore year in blocking groups of up to eight people (the core group of friends with whom you receive your Housing assignment). For students in a rush, grab-and-go lunches in Loker Commons are the norm, but it's not so unusual either to linger over an empty tray in your House dining hall through three cycles of conversation...
...membership. A woman’s place was, well, in her own club, the Chilton-—not in the den of men, in any event. At Myopia Hunt Club on Boston’s North Shore, women golfers were forbidden to enter through the main door or linger in the lounge...
...exhilaration and confusion, when scurrying professionals with Palm Pilots checked their portfolios from speeding cabs. When 24-year-old bosses in baggy khakis told 50-year-olds in pressed suits to take a hike. The cheese will be somewhere else in 10 years, but its faintly moldy odor will linger...
...Thursday, 10 p.m., Downtown Crossing, red line. Barely a dozen passengers linger at this nearly silent stop. A scruffy- looking gentleman zips up his guitar case. Sergei Alexeev heads home; there is seemingly no more money to make for the night. Rather than bless his crowds with songs of old Mother Russia and Stoli, this immigrant with a thick accent strictly sticks to the guitar. For three years he has played in subways full time. This 36 year-old hope to get noticed and eventually belong to a big-time band...