Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quit: "For a while, I would just like to sit in the shade with a glass of wine in my hand and watch people dance." But before he accepted President Kennedy's offer to be Ambassador to the United Nations, Stevenson had indicated that he intended to stay with the job as long as he was wanted. "If I accept this appointment," he told a friend, "I am committed to support the President this side of treason or madness. There is no way for a man as prominent as I am to quietly step down...
...fine by us," said Shepard. According to him, many people peek in between eight and ten every night, but decide to come back later when the crowed is larger. Things get going when a few brave souls finally congregate shortly after ten. "If the early ones would only stay, I'm sure a group would collect by nine," Shepard mused...
...Citizens now rise at 5 a.m., perform calisthenics in the streets under the watchful eye of the local can bo, then go off to work until 9:30 a.m. Since Ho & Co. fear midday air raids, the workers do not get back to the job until 3 p.m., then stay on until 9:30 p.m. On Sundays "volunteers" wheel out of town to work on the dikes of the Red River delta. "Some go because they feel legitimately patriotic," explains a visitor. "Others go because to them it's a day in the country. And others go because they...
...Pearson loyally pronounced his continuing faith in his talented protégé. Last week Pearson named Favreau president of the Privy Council. The job might have been a sinecure, but Pearson tacked on a key role in the delicate area of federal-provincial relations. Favreau would also stay on in the touchy slot of Quebec party leader...
...manipulator's manipulator, he preferred to stay out of sight and make others dance to the tune he whistled. In his 70-year career he cleaned up in everything from lead mines to trotting tracks, ruled a vast network of railroads that spread from Ohio to the West Coast, established himself as the man who banked the robber barons, eventually scrambled to the top of a $100 million heap. Sarnoff also makes it clear, sometimes inadvertently, that Sage was a liar, a swindler, and a vivid illustration of that cliché about the desire for money being the root...