Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate page. The boy turned it down, and Bobby Baker was recommended in his place. He had never been away before, and upon reaching Washington he became miserably homesick. Teacher Hallum heard about it and wrote him a letter: "I asked him not to give up, to stay there and fight because we were all proud of him and we were with him." Bobby's reply was scrawled in pencil upon a sheet of tablet paper. "Miss Hallum," he wrote, "Bobby Baker don't quit...
...wartime guerrilla fighter with Merrill's Marauders in Burma, an OSS officer in the Far East, holder of a Ph.D. in international politics from Yale, Hilsman had long talked about returning to academic life. He once tried to submit his resignation to Kennedy, but Kennedy persuaded him to stay on. Both Kennedy and Harriman admired Hilsman's rapid-fire command of facts, ideas and advice...
...Senate? "Perhaps it's the giddiness of victory, but I say three-to-two for passage of the whole thing and three-to-one that all the big titles stay." When reminded that the New York Times is more pessimistic, Higgs laughs: "The trouble with Harvard is that everyone here reads the Times, and it hasn't been right about this bill...
...another surprising decision, the Committee defeated 4-1 a motion to prosecute the leaders of the boycott. The notorious Louise Day Hicks, who proposed the measure, said that since the stay-out was illegal, the prosecution of its organizers would prove that Boston did not have "two sets of laws...
Since the Boston School Committee refuses to admit that the city's schools are segregated, it seems unlikely that any solution to the crisis will be reached without further demonstrations, like the successful stay-out last week...