Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an all-night meeting Premier Dr. Juan Negrin's Cabinet decided to stay in Barcelona for the time being, but announced that they had taken all "necessary measures to guarantee against any eventuality the continuous administration of the State and the work of government.'' In other words, the Negrin Cabinet, unlike the Largo Caballero Cabinet which hastily fled from Madrid to Valencia in late 1936, decided to remain at their posts until there could be no doubt that the city was lost. They would then flee...
Background. William Faulkner's great-grandfather entered northern Mississippi, so the legend has it, at the age of ten. Colonel William Falkner (the name is spelled both ways) ran away from his home at Middleton, Tenn., walked several hundred miles to Ripley, near Oxford, to stay with an uncle. He found the uncle in jail, charged with murder. He sat down on the courthouse steps and "swore he would some day build a railroad along the route he had walked...
...Cruiser Foch, M. Daladier proceeded to Algiers, where Arab chieftains and Zouave and Spahi detachments accompanied him to a monument for Algerian War dead. Here M. Daladier summed up the impressions of his trip: "The Colonials are French-they will stay French...
...have put that in instead of leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support I won't stay out of anything," is a sheer unfounded exaggeration: promise me you didn't mean that...
When reading your editorial of December 19 concerning a new infirmary, I was just leaving Stillman after a five day's stay...