Word: loiterer
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...respect the summer was better than usual: there had been almost no "Bermuda highs" - the masses of stagnant air which often loiter for days or weeks over the Atlantic. Slowly revolving in a clockwise direction, they plague the coast al areas with sweltering humid weather blown off the tepid Gulf Stream, make Manhattan seem like Manila or Singapore...
...nothing amazes them more than the contrast in prices. On the islands it is almost impossible to spend money-$30 cash may last a man six months-and when a post exchange does open, men will loiter around it by the hour, buying things they do not need...
Military Secrecy. Negro soldiers stand guard over the laboratories at M.I.T., outstanding center of war research. FBI agents loiter inconspicuously about the University of Chicago campus, where scientists have shelved 90% of their peace time projects and now file their current research in code. Armed police bar visitors from General Electric's laboratories, 100% converted to direct war work. The entire University of Washington campus (with its great wind tunnel) is closed off and guarded at night...
...Indians "hang" (loiter) in the phone booths in the lobby. Those who hit luck without losing their gains too fast to the horses or to other promoters become "heels," paying perhaps $10 a month for a cubicle on the third floor. The renting agent, Morty Ormont (French for Goldberg), knows a heel is out of business when his hat is gone. The luckiest of the heels move upstairs and become "tenants"; but sooner or later, tenants turn up in the lobby booths as Indians again. Some leading Jollity Building denizens...
Japanese spinsters, too, are making hay. Hundreds of them have been hired by the Government as Peeping Thomasinas. Some of them loiter around the luxury counters of department stores, taking notes on their sisters who squander yen on beauty creams instead of patriotically investing in Government bonds. Other, luckier maidens, steal at dusk to vantage points near geisha-houses, machiai (waiting-houses) and licensed prostitute quarters, and there scribble down the automobile license plates of bloods who waste their money during the national emergency. Sometimes, when the young scalawags arrive by taxi, the guardians of national thrift have to slip...