Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sound trucks bumped through the smashed streets, telling the people to turn in their firearms, to stay away from the Rhine front, to be in their homes between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m., and not to leave the city. The loudspeakers also gave them their first unadulterated news-via the BBC-in years...
...units of the 92nd have too often "melted away" before the enemy. Certain units have been thrown into "more or less panicky retreats, particularly at night when the attitude of some individual soldiers seemed to be, 'I'm up here all alone; why in hell should I stay up here...
Offered a chance at a commission, he turned it down. "I'm a plain soldier-I want to stay...
...picked from among men who sit in the House of Commons. The meaning was unmistakable. Major James Coldwell, leader of the socialist CCF, would go. So, probably, would Gordon Graydon, Parliamentary leader of the Tories. But John Bracken, national Tory leader who is not a member of Parliament, would stay at home...
...class readers can thus envision themselves in every tell-all); 2) since the readers live drab lives, they naturally wonder what would have happened if they had gone sinning instead - and by reading about sin in True Confessions, they have the satisfaction of knowing that they were wise to stay pure...