Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be to forget it. ... They don't need pity, because you don't pity brave men. . . . They simply need bosses who will give them a little time to adjust their minds and their hands, and women who are faithful to them, and friends and families who stay by them until they are the same guys who left years...
Senator Tydings, amply supplied with sun helmets and summer khaki, had been expected to stay four weeks. When he suddenly left Manila, rumors flew through the capital that he had ducked out to avoid the sticky political situation developing in the Islands. At home, Senator Tydings said he had come back solely to speed up U.S. aid to the Islands. He had been shocked by their war damage, and was aghast at their economic prostration...
...challenger was a man the war-weary Filipinos knew well: smart, swart Brigadier General Manuel Roxas y Acuna, a lawyer-economist turned soldier, who had been asked by General MacArthur to stay behind when the General and the Philippine Government left...
People had always liked Louise Peete. In 1919 her soothing manner had attracted a wealthy old Los Angeles oilman named Jacob C. Denton. She leased his house, and agreed to let him stay on in it. Soon she was using his car, paying his bills, handling his business with bankers. On the night of June 1, 1920, after months of happy companionship, Jake Denton disappeared. Weeping, Louise Peete helped police in a fruitless hunt for clues. Then she sadly sublet his house and went to Denver, where, she said, her second husband, one Richard Peete, was divorcing...
...With medical supplies almost nonexistent, they dressed the wounds of guerrillas. In a deep gorge, they cut seats, altar, lectern and pulpit out of rock and fashioned a chapel. The congregation dwindled as U.S. submarines, supplying the guerrillas, began to evacuate some of the Americans. The missionaries chose to stay...