Word: lingering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which tells of the deep friendship between a testy old Spanish fisherman and an Albanian sailor, neither of whom ever learns to speak the other's language. In Life Is an Operetta, Ustinov uses his expertise to write a deceptively simple account of a Hungarian singer who will linger in memory as the quintessential Hungarian female on the make...
Bunnies in London's Playboy Club are being fired for loafing. Construction workers have been known to take breaks to play soccer in the street. Automobile sheet-metal stampers linger in their locker room calculating the football pools, while the foreman hopefully chants, "Back to the benches, mates." The title of Peter Sellers' 1959 film, I'm All Right, Jack, satirizing the idleness in "the farewell state," has become part of England's language, summing up all the nation's cosseted, truculent, archaic featherbedding...
Broadway's biggest hits are almost always musicals, and the melodies linger on through the summer theater circuit...
...superb cover story on Juan Marichal [June 10]. Bat-swinging incidents and beanballs are unpleasant but real phenomena of baseball. Any one incident, such as the Marichal-Roseboro affair, will not live long in anyone's memory. The memory that will linger is that at one time Juan Marichal was indeed "the best right arm in baseball...
...University has had curious effects. The hostility has not disappeared, and it would be a mistake to assume that it is rapidly on its way out. James M. McGovern '64, a Cambridge native who ran unsuccessfully for the City Council last fall, speaks of the hostility that will probably linger on indefinitely...