Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death of the nuclear submarine Thresher. Much of the testimony, taken from Thresher crewmen who were on leave during the sub's fatal test cruise, and from technicians and nuclear-power experts, was classified as secret. But what did become public was enough to make any landlubber stay just that...
Reliefer Henry Nau was greeted by Patrick's single, scoring two runs and putting the Crimson ahead to stay, 9-7. Taking no chances, Shepard put Del Rossi in to pitch the ninth and Paul stopped the Engineers cold...
...planning an addition that will double the plant's size. The company owes its remarkable success to an ill wind that blew a lot of good. Its bank account was so low that it could not afford to buy an expensive piece of equipment that it needed to stay in business-and so began making it itself...
...higher wages and fewer hours in the new contract that the Transport Workers Union is now negotiating for them with American. American argues that it guarantees ground jobs that pay as well as flying ones to stewardesses after they are grounded-but, then, no one really expects them to stay around that long. Age limits are also in effect at TWA and Delta (both 35), but marriage nearly always solves the problem. American itself has an annual 40% stewardess turnover rate, and only eight to ten stewardesses a year out of American's 1,500 reach 32 without...
...tenor sang in a voice harsh from top to bottom, unsure of every transition from mezza voice to full voice and, by the end of the evening, badly hoarse. On every note he worked audibly to stay in tune, but for all his trouble he was consistently flat; occasional sounds had no pitch at all. In the simplest pieces he was mildly affecting, but whatever he thought should be grandiose was rendered with grunts, gasps, bodily jerks, and fierce glances that are even sillier in recital than they are on stage...