Word: lingering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tail section fluttered down, turning over & over, scattering debris and bodies, and smashed to rest, belly-up, on the riverbank. The forward half of the plane seemed to linger in the air. Then it too plunged down, hit the river in a burst of spray, and was gone...
After the conviction of the 11 Communist leaders last week, two problems linger on to bother those who wish to maintain justice while preventing subversion. One is a legislative problem, the other a question of specific procedures used by courts and loyalty boards...
...Paris, Mary Garden, 72, said that she would make a lecture tour in the U.S. this fall, her first trip back in 18 years. Her subjects: music, the opera, and singers. Said the onetime prima donna, whose hip-swinging versions of Thais and Salome still linger in the memories of old-time operagoers: "I will speak as I feel...
...were streaming into the rickety, broken-down hut which Nagumo used as his headquarters, to be comforted by Nagumo's deity, "The August Inside of Heaven Owner God." To demonstrate their true faith, the converts always laughed when they prayed. "The spirit of the smile," glowed Nagumo, "must linger in everything...
...never-waking sleep, than linger...