Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once, when state troopers prevented marchers from picketing on the capitol sidewalk, Lackey buttonholed a reporter and said, "If they stay in the street I'll have to arrest them. Do you think there's any chance of reasoning and persuading them to use the sidewalk across the street...
...increasing congestion is not the only complaint. "We used to have a layover down in the MBTA yards," one driver said, "but now we have to stay with our buses. We don't have time to get a cup of coffee or go to the bathroom or anything...
...more than 400 white churchmen sped to Selma. Many turned up without so much as a toothbrush or a change of socks, and few had any idea of where they would stay. Some seemed to think it was all something of a lark. Said one clergyman to a colleague as he stepped off the plane in Montgomery: "Fix bayonets! Charge!" Also on hand were secular crusaders, including Mrs. Paul Douglas, wife of Illinois' Democratic Senator, Mrs. Harold Ickes, widow of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, and Mrs. Charles Tobey, widow of the former Republican Senator from New Hampshire...
Ever since Harold Wilson squeaked into power five months ago, he has had his hands full trying to stay in power with his five-vote parliamentary majority. Postponed were the heady socialist dreams of renationalizing the steel industry, state purchase of urban land, and a first hundred days' whirlwind assault on modernizing Britain. Fact is that Wilson has had nowhere to go but straight down the middle, hoping to keep everybody happy and himself employed...
Modern dentistry has come to demand so many and varied skills that the average dentist has little time to stay abreast of medical science after his first years in dental school. Traditionally, explains Dean Salley, "the student spends his first two years learning the basic sciences, such as anatomy and physiology. Only in his third and fourth years does he begin to meet and treat patients and apply those basic sciences." What is needed, says the dean, is better continuity...