Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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advisers' compound and freeing 1,200 inmates of the province prison (352 of whom elected to stay behind rather than flee with their liberators). In Saigon's Chinese quarter of Cholon, Viet Cong squads boldly entered four movie theaters and stopped the shows to warn the audiences not to vote...
Those refugees who have returned, and those Arabs who remained in Israel's "New Territories," are finding that life is fast returning to normal as the Israelis demonstrate their intention to stay on. In Old Jerusalem, gone are the last remnants of the Mandelbaum Gate that stood for two decades as an ugly reminder that the Holy City was divided...
...with virulent snakes. Rogue elephants roam its valleys, tigers and pan thers patrol its hillsides. It hardly seems a fit place for man. Yet that inhospitable area has attracted as motley an assortment of tribesmen, fugitives, thieves, freebooters and smugglers as exists anywhere on earth. They come and they stay on for only one reason: be cause of certain distinctions of climate and soil, Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, finds the place unusually congenial. Each spring the hillsides blossom into white and purple waves of flowers. The annual harvest produces 1,000 tons of raw opium - 90% of the world...
...deeply cultured, ironic man, he was clearly troubled by the compromises he made to stay safe. Once he wrote bitterly that "my life resembles a vaudeville act with many changes of costume, but I am not a ham. I am only trying to be obedient." Perhaps the truest description of his prescription for survival was his simple admission that in his writing "I have told the truth, but not all the truth...
...roads. But the isolation of the campesino is slowly breaking down. Fathers urge their sons to get some basic schooling so that they can land jobs in the nation's expanding industries and urban areas. Thus when a school trailer arrives in a village for its 31-month stay, it becomes a popular social center. The young children sit under an awning attached to the trailer for basic Spanish instruction in the morning, older youths return from farm chores to study in the afternoon, adults gather at night...