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Word: lingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheer these tender graces, but fewer will want to miss those of a Fairbanks find: a 23-year-old, Tahiti-born "Tyrolean blonde" named Paule Croset. Her performance (as a Dutch farm girl) is as clear as a brook, and audiences may well object that the camera does not linger longer on her cool, inviting beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Therefore, it seems to me, we should not be unduly depressed if the Soviet-Communist forces should decide to part company with the world organization. Certainly we ought not to give away anything which is essential to our security in order to persuade them to linger with us for the purpose of paralyzing the joint harmonious action of three-quarters of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Prognosis | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...process they built up a spirit and tradition that seems still to linger. The veterans of the 1946 team still tell the stories of their battles with and for Boston...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Jayvees Always Fight For Boston | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

...smaller dollar harvest from the already less copious graduates. Such exorbitant charges as $30 for running off the stencils of the Album's mailing list, general milking of graduating classes for every cent of the wasteful costs of Class Day exercises, leave rancid tastes that are bound to linger through the years. And it is still expected that, through an almost dead class loyalty, the alumni will still come across with cheery alacrity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penny Foolish | 8/1/1947 | See Source »

...Paris reports were true, the Soviet Government was seeking to sell some 50 million bushels of grain abroad; it was probably not because of surplus stocks, but to win friends and influence people. Crop estimates from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland were discouraging. In India and China, famine threatens to linger on at least until November, when the new rice crop will be gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Famine's End? | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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