Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third floor of the dirty-yellow brick building at IO2A Nassau Avenue, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Then she called again. A man's voice answered her from somewhere below. She cried: "Why don't you come out?" The reply came hollowly: "I want to stay...
Paul Makushak had succeeded, as far as police could learn, in his desire to be alone. No one except his mother had known he was there. His father, Peter, had been told years ago to stay downstairs, and he had stayed, sleeping in the back of his jumbled first-floor tailor shop and dry-goods store. Peter Makushak rarely saw his wife and believed her story that their son had gone to Canada...
...Catholics are also making an intensive drive for the lost and strayed. Under the leadership of tall, scholarly Father John Carmel Heenan, 43, superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, mission teams are paying flying visits to 1,700 Catholic parishes in England and Wales. In each of them missionaries stay from one to three weeks, visiting every Catholic in the area, holding church services twice daily. Father Heenan advises his missionaries never to complain to parishioners about lack of attendance. Says he: "A church that is half empty is half full...
Once again, the varsity boat demonstrated such clear superiority over its rivals that it was never pressed. Bill Curwen negotiated the course at his usual unhurried 31 beat, despite the fact that MIT was making a desperate bid to stay in the running over the early part of the race...
...Crimson jayvees also turned in a performance which sets them up as strong Eastern contenders. This second boat, aided by three recent lineup changes, staged by far the most thrilling race of the afternoon to stay among the thinning ranks of the nation's unbeaten crews...