Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leaks. On his second day, Ike broke his own schedule to linger at a family breakfast with Mamie, son John and John's wife Barbara. It was the last time they would be together before Major John started back to his job (assistant operations officer) with the 3rd Division in Korea. Ike didn't get to the office until 8:50, but he put in a full day working over his State of the Union message (set for delivery to a joint session of Congress next Monday), conferring with his staff and greeting callers...
Besides managing his official responsibilities, Cheever tends his lively interest in world affairs with diligent reading. His lectures on foreign policy administration often show an impressive familiarity with articles buried in the high numbered pages of The New York Times. But to students who linger after class, to ask questions about current affairs, he is modest and self-effacing, punctuating his answers with an "of course, I may be wrong...
Which Is the Flower? Manning constantly worries about his ship. He hates to linger at the captain's table (likely guests on the maiden voyage: Margaret Truman, the Vincent Astors, United Aircraft's Fred Rentschler and wife, the U.S. Lines' President John Franklin). Says he: "I get uneasy wondering what's going on up top." Though he abominates small talk, Manning has taught himself a few conversational gambits. One of them is to lean around a vase of flowers and say to the lady passenger opposite: "I can hardly tell which is the flower." Says Manning...
...Lampoon was trying to alibi for a series of defeats. The CRIMSON tried to placate both parties, saying that because of a patronizing attitude, "Princeton is out to get Harvard . . . but they are too much a part of the best traditions of American education to allow themselves to linger in what is, at best, petty feudalism." But it was too late to damage the rift. On November 1, Princeton announced that it had cut all athletic relations with Harvard...
Students will take their last College meal on the evening of Tuesday, June 10. William A. Heaman, Manager of the Dining Halls, said yesterday that board rates will end then. Those who plan to linger in Cambridge may eat, and pay with coupons, at Adams House until Tuesday dinner, June 17. Harkness Commons and the Graduate Dining Halls will close on Saturday June...