Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to miss getting this chair." he said, patting his Harvard chair. "If you stay 25 years, they give you a brand new Harvard chair. I'll only have been here 24 years and 10 1/2 months. But I'm not worried about the chair-I'd just like to stay until commencement to see the boys graduate...
...works of the Harvard University Press, few are as little read as the course catalogue. Most students will carefully examine only a few of the 515 pages in this year's edition. They stay on familiar grounds, looking for the most part only at the courses 15 or 20 numbers removed from those they took last year...
...hands, he ignited a frenzy of affection unlike any thing seen in American politics since the campaign of the late Robert Kennedy. Adoring kids charged across police lines, girls squealed, babies cried, one woman fainted and another reached out to muss Nixon's hair. Nixon, fight ing to stay on his feet, seemed to enjoy every moment. He signed autographs, had himself photographed with a local woman and her child, and pumped hundreds of hands before making his way back to the sanctuary of his plane...
Judged by the sum of their special living allowances, bonuses and "hardship" pay, American businessmen working abroad are considerably better off than their stay-at-home counterparts. At least that is the conclusion of the National Industrial Conference Board in a report issued after a survey of 104 senior executives of U.S. corporations with international operations...
Such figures, no doubt once true enough, are now quite dated. Today's manager is a beaverish scuffler who stays in boxing only because it is the life he knows. The fighter often tells the manager what to do. He may still be chased into the ring by the pinch of poverty and some inner reach toward identity, but he usually does not accept pain and futility for long. If he does stay in and doesn't make it, as Leonard Gardner shows in this moving and perceptive first novel, he will find the modern fight scene, though...