Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor's claque applauded, and sang When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. The mayor had a word for his Polish constituents: "I will stay in the fight until you get your relief, a free Poland with the same borders as before the war." He had a convincing backer-Wisconsin's Congressman Alvin O'Konski who stumped beside...
...sins against the Allies. But arguments did not count; the U.S., the Latin Americans, most of the Europeans had lined up against him. On the decisive vote, only Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Greece supported the Soviet Union. Many a delegate instantly wondered: would Molotov and his delegation take their beating, stay in the conference...
...Tiergarten's Victory Avenue, from all around the 150-year-old Brandenburger Tor and its surmounting green-grey copper Quadriga of Victory. Defense Commissioner Joseph Goebbels screamed his final exhortations to stand and die, then, reportedly, fled. The Hamburg radio shrilled that Adolf Hitler himself had chosen to stay in his capital at the head of its defense rather than retreat to a place of safety in the south. Berliners probably believed...
...yards, turned into Exeter Street to see a pretty sight-no one in front of him. He had won the run ten years ago, finished second six times since. Asked why he kept at his punishing pastime, Kelley replied: "Some people play golf in the rain, some stay up all night. Running is my hobby...
...most professional astronomers have been too busy for stargazing. Some 80% of them, including most of Professor Shapley's staff at Harvard, have been drafted for work in ballistics, rockets and other wartime projects. But in Europe, notably in Germany and Russia, astronomers have been allowed to stay at their telescopes. At the height of the German military tide, a Russian astronomer in the Caucasus electrified Muscovites with the news, radioed across enemy lines, that he had found a new nova...