Word: lingerings
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Even in his pro-I.R.A. neighborhood, John is an exception. Most kids linger on the periphery of war, bystanders steeped in inherited hate, armed mainly with taunts and rocks, whipped into street violence when the I.R.A. feels the need. In Republican families, loyalty to the cause is instilled by grandparents, fathers, aunts; family scrapbooks are filled with snapshots of funerals and marches, and fading newspaper clippings of killings and arrests, not weddings and school recitals. But kids take to the streets primarily because it's "good crack" -- Irish slang for fun. To the kids, throwing stones and bottles...
...Trinity at times looked like a vast lake. To people in its path, especially in Liberty County, 50 miles or so northeast of Houston, officials issued a blunt warning: "Get out now." A most discouraging word came from Trinity River Authority spokesman John Jadrosich, who said floods may linger through the summer in a "mega- natural disaster...
Something about this demure painting makes my eyes linger upon its soft brushstrokes, looking but not knowing exactly what I hope to find. There is something that makes this scene curiously familiar. I slowly realize that this painting is not simply about one girl. It is a beautiful work about hushed moments in the early morning, about indulging in solitude...
...first step toward normalization, the army's 1,200-man Presidential Guard, notorious for its abuses of human rights, has been moved off the palace grounds and is being disbanded -- even though Haitians are worried that there may be a backlash from the Tontons Macoutes, the ruthless thugs who linger from the Duvalier days. Still, for the first time since Duvalier's departure, | the prospects for democracy seem real...
...images that linger are those of naked bodies lying in rows on the ground, many with their ankles tied together with barbed wire. One is a boy of about three, too young to be a freedom fighter, too young to be a rebel, too young to be lying naked in the snow; another is a seven-month fetus on the torso of its disemboweled mother. But it was not just a slaughter of the innocents in Rumania last week. A few days later came another unforgettable image: the fallen dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, executed by a firing squad, a pool...