Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanders in China were perfectly aware that they were carrying out the U.S. Government's pledges to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. They also knew that Washington took the orders to stay out of "fratricidal strife" very seriously, and that they might be in trouble both with Washington and with the uninformed U.S. people if Americans got killed in the process. Up to this week, none had been killed by Chinese fire...
...report, by far the most comprehensive of the four, noted that "the 1931 Committee was able to take as an unwritten premise . . . that the tutorial system was a permanent institution at Harvard. . . . Today no one could safely make a tacit assumption that tutorial is here to stay. There is a widespread feeling, among students and among faculty members, that it is disintegrating...
...California more than 30 years ago, Lucy Hicks liked Oxnard, and Oxnard liked Lucy. The town was newly rich on sugar beets, and its Chinese and Mexican laborers blew their pay nightly on light ladies, gambling, whiskey and opium. Lucy, a skinny, 6-ft. Kentucky Negro, decided to stay, set out to get a good reputation as a preliminary to getting a bad one. She began cooking for Oxnard's leading families. By the time she opened her first house of prostitution, off Oxnard's crib-bordered China Alley, her genius in the kitchen was the talk...
...Levine, who knows as much as anyone about the heart and its ills. "Is it their diet, as I suppose? Then we should adopt it. Is it their racial heritage or their philosophical view of life, compared to our excitability?" Dr. Levine merely raised the questions, and did not stay for an answer...
...witticisms and 'modus vivendi' this space will be devoted. ... I frankly and firmly believe in Society. .. . Not prompted by any desire to slander the grand Old Guard ... I want to bring it back where it belongs-to full honors and to the headlines. . . . Society is here to stay...