Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have ever since the beginning of the struggle, Senate Republicans voted virtually en masse against the act, which would give the traditionally money-short Democrats extra campaign funds. Even with his latest rebuff, Long was not about to quit. "If need be," he said, "we ought to stay here until Christmas or New Year's to do what is best for the country." Snapped Mansfield: "I cannot believe that the Senate desires to repeat this demeaning indulgence...
...Greek trade unions and social and political clubs, of which only a handful had actual far-left connections. It disbanded the youth organizations of all Greek political parties. The new government also banned 52 regional leagues of municipal officials throughout Greece and warned those that were left to stay out of politics. It dismissed as unreliable twelve mayors in cities and towns across the country. In fact, mayors as such may be going out of business anyway: the junta also abolished the constitutional clause guaranteeing local elections and declared that local officials from now on will be appointed by Athens...
...Havana in the Cuban Winter League. Then, in 1962, former Brooklyn Dodger Outfielder Sandy Amorós, who saved the 1955 World Series for the Bums with his spectacular centerfield snag off Yogi Berra, took a very mean curve from Fidel Castro. The Beard decided that Sandy should stay in the bush league, kept him in Cuba for five years. Finally Sandy, 37, succeeded in getting passage for himself, his wife Migdalia and 13-year-old daughter Eloísa aboard one of the twice-daily Varadero-to-Miami freedom shuttles that have ferried almost 64,000 refugees from Cuba...
With his literary criticism and political essays, Mailer hit his stride as a phrase-maker; even his erstwhile debating opponent, William F. Buckley, calls him the most quotable writer of our time. Mailer dismissed Salinger as "the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school," said that Scranton's wheeler-dealers at the Republican convention "stood by idle wheels," and labelled Lyndon Johnson "the bully with an Air Force...
...have entered the building before 5 p.m. will be permitted to stay during the two-and-a-half hour period. But from 5 until 7:30, no males may enter, Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, announced at a Radcliffe Government Association meeting yesterday...