Word: loiterer
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...models have been tested only in wind tunnels, but they already look singularly promising. A plane built in this manner should be able to take off slowly after a short run, then fold its wings to fight at supersonic velocity. In addition, it will be able to loiter for long periods at slow, fuel-saving speed before accelerating into action. It will also be able to fold its wings and fly extremely fast just above the ground, where air resistance is high but where enemy radars cannot find it. If it lives up to its potential, the variable-geometry plane...
Soon he was writing reviews for the Paris monthly, Cahiers du Cinéma, the Parisian equivalent of Schwab's Drugstore in Hollywood, a place where young hopefuls loiter. In the late '50s, every young French director who had directed nothing wrote for Cahiers. One by one, they emerged - Claude Chabrol with The Cousins, François Truffaut with The 400 Blows. Only Jean-Luc Godard seemed to stay behind, and one day he disappeared with the Cahiers' petty cash. Chabrol and Truffaut wondered if Godard was trying to finance a film. They came...
...headed east across town, past the filthy, begrimed tenement brownstones where families loiter on the front stoops in the evening warmth, through the smelly, crowded section east of Park Avenue and over to East End Avenue. East River Drive was deserted. But near by, lolling against a slum tenement, were 25 boys and about ten girls, mostly Italian...
...City authorities think it's alright for less conspicuous creatures to loiter. Relaxation gives a town a cosmopolitan air, and even a few of Cambridge's Finest can be seen leaning against the Three Feathers displays in a particular Square establishment. But the old ladies of DcWolf Street have been writing the mayor that the buses lying in the middle of the Square are blocking their view of the subway kiosk, and 1955 is an election year...
...better place for it than in the Square. But the ideal solution would be to make a giant rotary out of the whole area. With a challenge like that--Mystic River Bridge signs at three of the six or so exits--even the police wouldn't have time to loiter, and the present city government would almost certainly be re-elected...