Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy that yoke was for Benes himself was related by his U.S.-naturalized brother John, recently returned from a long stay in Prague. Said John: "He was always worn out. He told me he simply could not get along with Gottwald...
...Socialists committed the unforgivable political sin: they sold out, and then refused to stay bought. What they wanted desperately was postponement of local elections scheduled for October. They hoped the voters would forget the irresponsible Socialist desertion that had brought about the fall of Premier Robert Schuman's government (TiME, July...
Earlier in the year, when the birds were nesting, the monks discovered a nest of swallows above the altar in the newly patched crypt of Saint Benedict. Some of them proposed to tear it down. But Dom Oderisco Graziosi good-humoredly intervened. "Let them stay," he urged. "After all, they too are rebuilding...
...Prince is no friend of Razvi and his Razakars, who might be less troublesome if not backed by the government. Last week, in a pique, the Prince resigned his nominal title of commander in chief of the Hyderabad army. Later he changed his mind. "Father told me to stay on," he said. "What else can I do?" The smarter advisers of the Nizam, who still boasts the proud title "Faithful Ally of the British Government," know that his best hope of staying on his throne lies in becoming also the faithful though reluctant ally of free India...
...went off without a hitch, the reason was that the army and police had rounded up everyone able to cause trouble. Some suspects had been dragged off to jail to sit out the ceremonies; many another had been told to stay out of Asuncion for a while. But the really dangerous enemies of the regime had long ago gone underground, or been sent to Asuncion's red-walled prison or to the isolation of the Pena Hermosa concentration camp in the steaming Chaco...