Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oblige the Negro community to surrender its only bargaining advantage and to trust blindly in the good faith of the Committee. The attitude of school authorities over the last half-year doesn't justify such trust. Until the Committee adopts a timetable or drawing up an integration plan, the stay-out should remain scheduled...
...driving cars and learn to commute by bus or bicycle, reduce their liquor intake and cut restaurant side dishes to a maximum of three. In keeping with his austere mood, Park advised women to wear their skirts shorter and demanded crew cuts for men. Above all, civil servants must stay out of kiseng (geisha) houses. That, declared the proprietress of a big kiseng house in Seoul, was carrying things too far. Said she: "Where else can government officials transact their business...
...sessions, Duffy heckled Thomas unmercifully. "Come on, you're going to work, work, really work," he bellowed. "You've got that bar too low. Put it up to six-nine. You've got to go up straight, John, up straight. Don't let your leg stay up there so long. Pay attention now. Come on, I want to see a lot of daylight between you and that bar." Explained Duffy: "You have to talk tough to John. In high school, I used to make...
...chapters-the first belonging to Josephine, the second to Bonaparte. While Bonaparte led his armies across the Alps to the first great victories of the Italian campaign, Josephine lingered in Paris, refusing to join him or to answer his impassioned letters. "Make fun of me," wrote Bonaparte. "Stay on in Paris, have lovers of whom the whole world may know, never write to me, and-for all that, I will only love you ten times more. If this is not madness, fever, delirium!" When Bonaparte sailed for Egypt, Josephine plunged into an affair with a cavalry officer nine years...
Charlayne's stay at the university was in a sense more frustrating since she had no honors to justify her experience. Her contact with white students became less tense, but she was never able to establish friendships. Discouraged at the inability of Negroes to raise funds for her scholarship and dismayed at the bickering over who was the better integrationist, she or Hamilton, Charlayne finally began to feel detached from both whites and Negroes. As she told Trillin...