Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year's Eve 1941 Mydans elected to stay behind in burning Manila while TIME'S other correspondent in the Philippines, Melville Jacoby, took off on a little island freighter to follow the action across the bay to Bataan and Corregidor. Two days later Mydans and his wife Shelley were herded with some 3,500 other Americans into the internment camp at Santo Tomas University. They spent the next 21 months as prisoners of the Japs...
...other major problem, the plane's great speed, engineers see no easy solution. Even at the jet-plane's present cruising speed, 400 m.p.h., a pilot has almost all he can do to stay conscious during maneuvers ; a slight turn may make him black out. Some jet-plane enthusiasts are beginning to observe, only half-jokingly, that it may soon be necessary to redesign the human body...
During his stay in the bare, barred "juvenile tank" of Seattle's King County Jail, 16-year-old John Emberg often wished he were dead. He was a dull, shy, slack-chinned boy. When a tough red head named Chuck Thomas forced other boys to fight him, he backed away, posturing timidly. When he was beaten with shoes and belts, he wept...
...soldier's deep yearning for home is beginning to be tinged with a sense that in order to stay home, once he gets there, Europe must be left in better shape than he found it. Just how to achieve it bothers him intensely. Somehow, the more articulate ones feel, a way must be found to allow Europeans to choose their own political systems and yet to hold them in check so that the strong do not again oppress the weak...
...more for fluff than fact. A fact man himself, "V.A." was quiet, modest, a hard worker. He spent every afternoon from 1 to 6 in the office, took four hours off for dinner and a nap; then at 10 he returned to bustle over the proofs, spot weaknesses, and stay until 5 a.m. to get all the news...