Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doesn't endure, for eight years, in exile, the difficulties which were a constant factor of my work on the book, just to embroider in emerald floss another portrait of Emmet suitable for use on a cuddly sofa cushion. It took guts and ingenuity even to stay in Ireland...
...Alabamans knew that a coon as big as Kissin' Jim couldn't stay holed up forever. What would happen next? As they waited for him to burst out of the brush, nobody seemed to know whether the voters would boo, cheer, or just gawk as though they had seen a pink giraffe...
...observer, it was like one big poker game, with members of three determined cliques bluffing each other to see how long each would last out the game. Clouds of smoke thickened in the room, but the plot still looked clear. Cambridge would stay without a mayor...
...fact, the lean manufacturer of a dozen straight victories over the Eli practically exudes confidence about his Olympic-year prospects, although the Charles River still flows invisibly under a cover of ice and his muscular charges still are doing their only rowing is boats that stay still while the water flows past--the Newell boathouse tank...
...Jobbing. Robinson's adolescent dream was to go to college, but his father spiked that because the oldest Robinson boy, Dean, had become a morphine addict after getting his M.D.; if that was the fruit of college learning, Edwin might better stay at home. Lonely and miserable, young Robinson lolled around the town, doing odd jobs and writing verses...