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We were told that these measures languished under Gates's successors.
In King's letter from the Birmingham jail, where he languished for a week in April 1963, he "pulled up hope in paired phrases of secular and religious faith," repeatedly invoking "constitutional and God-given rights" in a "characteristically American ...
But the rise of Hamiltonian thinking coincided with the eclipse of classical cytogenetics in favor of the molecular biology of model organisms, and these remarkable little chimeras have languished in undeserved obscurity.
When she recovered her power of speech, her English was so bad that she could not make herself understood, and she languished in the hospital for almost 40 years--till recently, when the hospital began to make arrangements to close and move her elsewhere.
By comparison, the coastal settlements languished, and were subject to frequent raids by Barbary pirates.