Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purposes of VISTA is to furnish an alternative to the Peace Corps for citizens who cannot afford to serve a two-year tour or who prefer to stay in this country. Accordingly, the standard term of enlistment in VISTA will be one year, including a month of training. But for people who can only (or would rather) volunteer for part-time work, neither the Peace Corps nor VISTA has anything to offer...
...years at Harvard were up, he knew that he "belonged to an old, small, much-trodden country, where every field, every path, every ruin had its memories, where :very last corner had its story." It took lim seven more years to get back, but he was back to stay. If his book is "a no to my own boyhood, my own youth, even to my own parents," it is a yes to "the basic experiment with life" that made him a writer. For better or worse, he notes, he remains "impaled on one green corner of the universe...
Refugee students in the U.S. are not the only ones to have troubles, however. Some refugees, unable or unwilling to stay in school in Moscow, have returned to Dar es Salaam loudly denouncing the Russians as "bigots and hyprocrites." One secondary school student was promised a scholarship to Poland and given an airplane ticket to Cairo to "finalize arrangements." After three months of being told by the Polish Embassy to "come back next week," he found a scholarship to an Egyptian technical school where he plans to start this fall...
Osborne remained in School for only four weeks, however, and didn't even stay long enough to take his hour exams since the pranksters were unwilling to pay the tuition for their charge. As bills began to arrive at Osborne's Cambridge address in increasing numbers, his creators became uneasy and finally turned themselves in to Summer School authorities...
Most of those who do not belong to AAAAS reportedly stay out for the same reason, and not because they disapprove. (Just as many spurn civil rights groups because they are "disillusioned," and not because they are satisfied with the rate of social change...