Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Late. The Reds saw it coming, but they were demoralized by its suddenness and decisiveness. Communist Party orders were for them to stay and work within the C.I.O. In the last hours before Murray got down to business in Cleveland's big limestone convention hall, they tried to save themselves with pleas for forgiveness and promises to be good...
Cambridge is of course sorry to lose the big Lever executive offices and research laboratories which, together, furnished 1300 jobs. But the firm's manufacturing plant of 1500 workers will stay right on in Cambridge and even expand itself somewhat. Moreover, it looks as if the Lever offices and Laboratories won't be idle for long...
...menus in a one week stay included three meals with macaroni as a main attraction, a meal made up of potato chips and an inedible salad, and meat loaf which tasted as if someone had misread the recipes on the back of a Corn Flakes box. Orange juice was always canned, and stewed fruits, and canned spice foods, not what one gives to a convalescing patient, made up the diet. Meat, with the exception of Sunday dinner, was poor and rarely present, while the fish on Friday had, better not be described in print...
...steady rain was falling when Castro awoke in Panajachel the next morning, and he decided to stay on another day. Twenty-four hours later there was still no letup, and streams on either side of Panajachel were swollen. Castro went to church to pray that the rains might stop. All that night torrents fell, and Castro trembled with fear that his cornpatch might be washed into the lake or buried by landslides from the mountains. Next morning he joined the village elders as they dressed an image of San Francisco in a raincoat and paraded it down the street while...
...opposed to change and that he tried to get that idea across in books like The Robe and The Big Fisherman. "I have only one theme," he said. "All authors have only one theme, though few will admit it. My theme, it happens, people like, because they long to stay...