Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the streets like children, wailing "Don't leave us, Abdel Nasser." Women flailed about screaming as if in mourning, scooping up dust and throwing it on their heads. By bus and train, camel and foot, peasants poured into Cairo, inveighing against the "U.S. imperialists" and pleading "Nasser, stay with us!" If, as some intelligence sources indicate, an incipient military coup was in the works against Nasser, the plotters got the message. So did everybody else. Mohieddin announced that he would refuse to take over. Nasser's Cabinet voted not to accept his resignation; Nasser's rubber...
...recall that when he presented as a student project three great pyramidal structures honeycombed with individual oval living units, his professors objected that "Pretty soon the planet will be covered with nothing but balls." The way things are going for Häusermann right now, he is likely to stay inside his concrete shells until his student vision becomes a reality...
...limitation for scuba divers is not how deep they can go but how long they can stay under. Conventional compressed-air breathing units, which weigh 36 Ibs., are generally exhausted after one hour. Soon, according to this month's Skin Diver magazine, aquanauts will be able to submerge for six or even eight hours at a time with a back pack that weighs only half as much as usual...
...needed, Zinberg says, is more research; then an unbiased, unmoralistic appraisal of drugs should be made. The laws as they stand now serve as a fine deterrent to any kind of debate and any kind of study. That may be how authorities want it, the situation is unlikely to stay that way much longer...
...Those people who were in not for the Institute's unique and remarkable intent might not have a way of getting away from the stifling bureaucracy at all. Those who might not otherwise be able to fill a knowledge gap crucial to future service. Or those who might not stay alive politically or find that outside job without a place to pause for a moment to decide what to do next...