Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet politician said the U.S.S.R. does not fear the strength of a unified Germany, but memories of the Second World War do linger...
MARSAXLOKK BAY, Malta--President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev wrapped up two days of superpower summitry yesterday, claiming strides toward a new era of East-West peace but underscoring differences that linger at the end of a 45-year Cold...
...Jesuit priests, which seemed to symbolize all that is wrong in El Salvador. While no one has claimed responsibility, immediate suspicion centered on the country's resurgent right- wing death squads. In the predominantly Roman Catholic country, angry accusations and outrage over the barbaric murders were certain to linger long after the battle had died. And for the U.S., they raised once again the moral dilemma of aiding a country where such acts have repeatedly gone unpunished...
...schools hit by bloodshed, the effects linger long after the police have done their job. In Stockton, Calif. a playground shooting last January left five pupils dead. Fred Busher, the head of the school district's psychology staff, says students "realize now that school is not the safe place it used to be and that something terrible can happen at any instant." The youngsters, he adds, are "dealing with things that we hoped they'd never have to face, or at least not until they were adults." He concedes that healing "will take months, even years...
...pictures have been piling up for 150 years. Battlefields, floods, summit conferences, auto accidents, congratulatory handshakes, game-winning touchdowns. Most scenes vanish quickly into the newspaper morgue. A few, however, linger in the mind's eye. Of the billions of metal sheets, glass plates, celluloid spools and other light-sensitive surfaces exposed to history in the name of publishing, only a handful of images have themselves become part of history. These form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. Every educated person should be familiar with them, just...