Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some had no reason to stay...
...knew the people in Mather House pretty well, and so I didn't want to change," he said. "It was easier for me to stay with Mather House...
...population, and many of them have fathers who are either missing, in prison or dead. The firemen, therefore, stand among a handful of male role models in this urban wasteland. On their days off, they drop by to tutor children in chess and math and to encourage them to stay in school. Most important, they offer discipline, tenderness and inspiration to a community where such things are in terribly short supply...
...that together and it's relatively easy to imagine why this team has rolled through the Ivy league. Only Princeton--aided by cold, rainy conditions that hampered both offenses--has been able to stay within 24 points of the Crimson in-conference...
...only failing of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a recurring metaphor it uses--and overuses--to unify its many narrative strands. "You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down...When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries. If everything dries up, the world is darkness." This is the philosophy impressed upon Okada by Mr. Honda, an elderly psychic with a weird fascination with phlegm. This analogy, intended to emphasize the nature of Okada's adventures in existential wackiness, is repeated throughout...