Word: staying
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...army since 1945. A Maronite Christian, he is a collateral of the famous Emirs Mansur, Yusuf and Bashir who ruled Lebanon under the Ottoman Turks. Eighty percent of his officers, 60% of his men are Christian. Six years ago, when Chamoun's predecessor tried to stay in office during an unpopular second term, Shehab refused him the army's assistance and reluctantly served as acting president until Chamoun's election. Ostentatiously unwilling to order his troops to fight except when attacked, ever ready to parley affably with rebel leaders, and to see that they are kept well...
Krim's first rebellion was against his father, a garde chamèptre (rural warden) in the mountainous, impoverished Kabylia region of eastern Algeria. His father, an old-fashioned Berber patriarch whose first loyalty was to his clan, wanted Krim to stay at home and follow the traditional Berber way of life. But Krim, determined to share in the new European existence introduced by the French, ran off to Algiers, where he lived with a cousin who was a minor civil servant, learned to read and speak French. Like the great majority of top rebel leaders, he is practically...
Caressing Shadows. Edouard Manet, who eventually won the Légion d'honneur ribbon, strove mightily to stay on the good side of the academicians. Though his subject matter was often as old as Giorgione's and Raphael's, the fact that he presented his themes in modern dress was enough to outrage viewers brought up on neoclassicism and romantic literary allusions. Manet discovered his clue to portraiture, and his fresh, vigorous palette, in the paintings of the 17th century painter Velásquez. In The Fifer, Manet even used the same greyish background Velásquez...
...have bought right up to the cash registers. In tests, researchers paid for housewives' purchases, led them to another market and asked them to shop again for the week's groceries. There the women bought an entirely different basket of goods. Such tests have persuaded stores to stay open at night to enmesh the undecided male as well as the female. A couple shopping together buys 60% more than the man alone, 30% more than the wife alone...
...books-and as much of a tribute to man's will to survive-are their accounts of their own and their friends' experiences in Red and Nazi jails. In an article in the London Spectator, Journalist Tabori reported some of the strategems they used in order to stay sane...