Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tame an outlaw horse than see a movie, the general who came to Okinawa was not a restless man. He could sit calmly in a leather chair aboard his command ship, listening to the reports coming in, and occasionally giving an order. If he had his way, man would stay awake 24 hours a day. But since man cannot, he has learned the trick of sleeping for five or ten minutes, then coming suddenly wide awake...
Slaves & Skeletons. Other rescues-the liberation of "dispossessed persons" (officialese for slave laborers and foreign workers overtaken by the advancing Allies)-became a problem. Ignoring Allied commands to stay put, thousands upon thousands of the emaciated, verminous, happy, resigned workers began the long walk back to freedom...
...Superintendent of Schools Fred B. Miller warned them to stay away from the union "if you have any sense...
Obviously G.M. was in the banking business for a good long stay; fortunately it had called in a topflight banker to nurse the depression baby...
Fontenoy, Waterloo and Dunkirk. The Coldstream Guards were organized by Oliver Cromwell's famed henchman, Colonel Monck, who taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped...