Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to impart a royal flavor was Princess Margaret, a tear glistening in her eye as the Union Jack was hauled down for the last time. By sending the Queen's sister to the ceremony, Britain made it warmly plain that no hard feelings linger from Jamaica's abrupt rejection last year of the London-fostered West Indies Federation. Independent Jamaica has been assured a place in the Commonwealth...
With that, he put his economy-size package at the door of Congress. It contained a siren song the words of which would probably be forgotten, but the melody would linger...
...trim, cozy and inordinately sexy import from Germany: stretch pants. Many a girl who did not know a slalom from a sitzmark has discovered that stretch pants round out her personality in a fetching manner and make a skiing weekend an opportunity rather than an ordeal; men linger on the trails to see rather than ski as the girls in the stretch pants schuss by. Says one spectator sportsman: "The development of stretch pants is really more important than the discovery...
First to recognize this was personable Benjamin Strong (Princeton, class of '19), since 1947 the bank's president and then chairman. He had livened things by actively seeking new clients, e.g. advertising on the society pages. Strong cast aside the tradition that U.S. Trust chief officers linger on (one quit at 104). And he reached into the outside banking world to hire as president and his eventual successor tall, handsome Hoyt Ammidon (Yale, '32). Ammidon was a 20-year veteran at New York's Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., and for five years personal-investment...
...challenged for sheer lovely sound-a sound that when she is in proper form seems to lie in the center of the voice, with virtually no displacement of notes. And although her acting remains as wooden as ever, she still knows how to make a line breathe, how to linger over phrases for maximum dynamic effect. She can still purl out endless pianissimos, infusing them with colors as muted but distinct as a fall landscape. If she has lost anything, it is the powerful, full-throated high notes that once added to her special glory...