Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politics. Only the tragic situation of my country and my admiration for General de Gaulle persuaded me-a university professor-to accept the post of mayor of Marseille. But now I'm here and I'm here to stay; violence and threats will not change that...
...undistinction.* In Austerlitz, N.Y., Pulitzer Prize Poetess Millay averred that she had never heard of such a thing. In Paris, the famed bosom friend of the late Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) announced: "I have no intention of going to the States; I am going to stay in Paris...
...Weekend stay-at-homes are invited to share the Yale game broadcast, play-by-play blackboard charting, and refreshments starting at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the large common room of the Union. The Union Committee announeed the smoker last night...
...stay afloat in a Third World War, the navies of the world will have to sink beneath the waves--this was the paradoxical prediction yesterday of Samuel Eliot Morison '07, naval expert and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History...
...Will Wait? Some readers will agree with Thornton Wilder that although such writing may not really "elucidate" anything, it contains an interesting insight. They will agree that it is typical of Americans to be impatient, to move on rather than to stay put, to "make money" rather than earn a living in the closefisted way of the French peasant. If the ordinary reader cannot wait while Miss Stein circles about such ideas, that goes to prove her point...