Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been used on the island. For example, Huang told how interrogators had extracted a false confession from him by keeping him awake for 50 to 60 hours at a stretch. Whether Huang and his co-defendants are found guilty or not, that disclosure of psychological torture was likely to linger in the memory of would-be dissidents in Taiwan...
...Bruins have won the NCAA title 11 times, and names like John Wooden, Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton linger in the team's background. But inexperience (four freshmen play key roles) and the problems that 6-ft., 6-in. center Mike Sanders is going to have with Joe Barry dictate that the Bruins won't get by Purdue...
...minicams, give them greater mobility. Another important advance is the Chiron, a device that projects symbols, graphs and subtitles on the screen. The key words of a major speech can now easily be shown, and complicated economic stories can be untangled with Chiron-generated charts and tables. But doubts linger about how TV journalists will use their new technical skills. Bill Moyers places the challenge on Arledge's lap: "The test is whether Roone's talent for technology will be spent making the important interesting or the trivial acceptable...
...most part, however, these uncluttered poems collectively represent a meaningful achievement. Heaney never hesitates to face up to the dilema of being an artist. His is not an easy life; some of the violent incidents from life in Belfast still linger in his head, coiling around that field where he cultivates his poetry. But in Field Work, Seamus Heaney advances beyond the political bog. His acres breathe, and his road steam...
...Most of them don't even watch the performances. They linger upstairs, they talk. There's a snack bar behind stage where everybody eats and hangs out. We used to play hearts during the performances back in the dressing room. If it was a good opera, I watched every time. I spent so much time sitting on a little stool, tucked away in the wings, watching the performances...