Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than one robust undergrad has weathered a stay at Conway or Stowe tossing in a sleeping bag in the back of a truck with nothing for sustinence but the will to live and a case of Three Feathers. By this method a student can spend a holiday in the snow for less than half the price of the cheapest lodging...
...Couldn't you stay home?" asked the Muse of History. "And leave Nicky alone with those sharpers! He never could do anything without me. Besides, I doubt if you know what it's like to be a ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m'effraie-the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Pascal said that, you know. Not bad for a man who had never been liquidated. And then," the Tsarina added, "Stalin overran Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania...
Britain expected to repatriate all prisoners by the end of next summer, France by December. Both countries, however, hoped to induce Germans to remain as "civilian" workers. Some 85,000 P.O.W.s have already signed contracts to stay for at least a year in France, another 35,000 have applied...
Chunky, slick-spoken Dr. Paul refused to discuss details of his escape or his activities since September. For some time to come, he thought, it would be best to lie low. He would stay in Bavaria, but in hiding. Said he: "There are Communist agents around here, you know...
...September, Pierre Courtade, correspondent for Paris' Communist daily, L'Humanite, got a U.S. visa only after promising to stay on the reservation (the U.N. and New York City areas) and to do no anti-American propagandizing...