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But one might still ask why certain Midori-based drinks, such as the Melonball and the Pearl Harbor , became widely accepted, while others-- The Green Goddess, Early Spring in Kyoto --languished in the pages of Suntory's promotional literature.
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.
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 ...
That proposal languished, but many observers noted that the high court could raise the fees without legislative approval.
By comparison, the coastal settlements languished, and were subject to frequent raids by Barbary pirates.