Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This step might become one of the most significant landmarks in U.N.'s constitutional development. If Russian abuse of the veto could be countered through Assembly action sanctioning peace-enforcement by individual states, then U.N. would have made a long step toward world government. Would the U.S.S.R. stay in a U.N. which could be used to oppose Russian policy as long as the U.S. had a majority in the Assembly? And was the U.S., which at San Francisco had favored the Big Power veto, really ready to submit all future security cases to the will of the majority...
Death Came Early. One day, No. 23 left the kappa and returned to Japan. He could never again discover the entrance to their country, was finally confined by skeptical authorities. He regarded his stay in the asylum with resignation, remembering the words of Mag, the kappa philosopher: "The wisest way of life is to look with contempt at the customs of an age, but nonetheless to live so as not in the least to destroy them...
...Physician Hertzog was calmly prescribing for the colds of palace callers. The barefooted Indians still swarmed unconcerned past the palace windows. Cracked Juan Pacheco, a cholo fruit vendor: "I know nothing about this mess, but all politicians are cut with the same scissors. They would give their necks to stay in power-and maybe they will...
When the New York Yankees slammed out 182 home runs during the 1936 season, it looked as if they had a record that would stay on the books for a long time. That year, the Yankees' "Murderers' Row"† included Lou Gehrig (49 homers), Joe DiMaggio (29), Bill Dickey (22), George Selkirk (18), Frankie Crosetti (15). This year, on the other side of the Harlem River, New York Giant fans are being treated to a show of fence-busting that is almost certain to overturn the Yankees' record. By this week, the Giants had banged...
...lush young native girl (Jean Simmons) and a splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...