Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurry." Chairman Wheeler rose to the bait. "Ten years?" he asked. "Why ten years?" The Army's Johnson ruefully explained that Greene was "pulling my leg"; only a few days before, Johnson had been quoted in the newspapers as having said that the U.S. might have to stay in South Viet Nam for another ten years. "Who trapped you into saying that?" asked Wheeler, a slight edge to his voice. Johnson defended himself...
Already beyond the schools' help, for example, is Harlem Dropout Harrison Campbell, 16, who quit Manhattan Vocational High School in the tenth grade last November. Campbell wanted to be a carpenter, "but 1 wasn't learning nothing, no how," and no one urged him to stay on. Nowadays, he sleeps until noon, plays cards and records with his buddies until 3 p.m., then ambles over to a neighborhood school playground for a game of basketball or football. Campbell hopes to get a job soon, delivering telephone books at $11.80 a day. "That's good bread," he says...
...into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping with his hand and knees, for eight seconds and then bail out. But that can be the longest eight seconds in sport-or the shortest...
Long-Term Commitment. Through revolution and expropriation ICOMI has remained unscathed. The main rea sons are that Bethlehem decided to stay in the background, commit its investment in Brazil to the long term and leave the management to Antunes. Antunes, now 58, is known as one of Brazil's most able and enlightened businessmen. He has started Brazil's first private foundation to support agricultural research, push education and development in backward areas. He has provided ICOMI workers with modern homes, built a fully staffed hospital, set up some of the best schools in Brazil. And all this...
...churches' participation in the civil rights revolution has united a wide variety of Christians committed to equal justice for the Negro; it has also raised the threat of denominational schism between the socially concerned and those who feel that their church should stay out of politics. Finally, warned Blake, union is threatened by lethargy and by "an actual hardening of opposition to church union proposals"-most notably, although Blake did not say it, among Methodists...