Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carvalho leaped into the lead with what sounded like honks and whistles, but Murphy soon caught up with gongs and tappings. Halfway through the sevenminute match, Murphy took a one-point lead, but then, with a flurry of weird whines from his violins, De Carvalho went ahead to stay, was declared a six-point winner...
...Conerico Was Here to Stay, by Frank Gagliano, gives another squeeze to that rind of a man, the antihero. He shows the standard stigmata-conformity, terror, absence of identity, lack of responsibility and commitment-yet after he is stranded on a Manhattan subway platform, the vulnerable humanity of Mark Gordon's expressively modulated performance makes one care about him. Gagliano has a gift for capturing the acrid flavor and jagged tempo of the city's mental and physical derangements. A blind man, his white stick rattling frenetically, goes into a convulsive attack of "the crazies" as the city...
...graduate school; the percentage is much higher in leading schools-47% at U.C.L.A., 66% at Brandeis, 67% at Harvard and Yale, and 86% at Amherst and Columbia. Graduate work lets students avoid the draft and put off the decision of what job to take. The longer students stay in school, the more likely they are to go into teaching or government instead of business...
Wilson danced backwards for most of the fight, trying to stay out of reach of Lord's windmill. At one point early in the second round, Lord cocked his arm and threw a roundhouse right which missed Wilson completely causing Lord to lose his balance and flop to the canvas...
...Senate, as Scott himself says, is in many ways the ultimate private men's club, and the Senator has the justifiable air of one who not only "has arrived," but plans to stay awhile. He has definite "Come, let us reason together" ideas about the business of legislation. It was not the justifiability, but the propriety of Senator Robert Kennedy's recent "Shirley Temple" performance before Senator Edward Long's Judiciary Subcommittee that disturbed Scott. He criticizes Kennedy in terms of a young upstart who has hurt his chances for advancement in the cantilevered power echelons of the Senate...