Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pincushion. Moreover, his chief needler, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson (TIME, May 19) is scheduled to resume the powerful chairmanship of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy next year, and Strauss believes their feud would be detrimental to the AEC program. The President wants Strauss to stay on; Strauss has countered by trying to find a successor who is reasonably free of Washington entanglements, reasonably tough enough to stand the heat...
...week the U.S. took official action of its own; the Immigration and Naturalization Service instructed its agents to bar Estrada, who left the U.S. a fortnight ago for Europe without first obtaining a re-entry permit. And Immigration planned hearings to decide whether Perez Jimenez should be permitted to stay...
...start. He chased the leaders of the three major political parties into exile, shot or tortured many of their lieutenants, smashed their organizations. But he only pretended to persecute Communists. He exiled wealthy, suave Gustavo Machado, boss of one of the party's factions, but permitted others to stay in business. Reds continued to dominate the Waiters, Bartenders and Hotel Employees Union; in return, many of its members spied for the dictatorship. So long as they collaborated, the Communists were free to spread their influence; when Perez Jimenez fell, they were ready to move quickly...
...honest little dark bay colt that made his reputation running second to Tim Tarn in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, finally ran in front all the way. Without Calumet's killer to catch him in the last furlong, Lincoln Road fought off determined opposition to stay ahead of the field from flagfall to finish in Garden State's $59,100 Jersey Stakes, whipped Ada L. Rice's Talent Show by a safe length and a quarter...
While Novelist Donleavy owes his Blooming manner to Joyce (and some of his fertilizer to Spillane), his hero's bad manners borrow something from the Angry Young Men, those moral slummers who came to scoff and remained to stay. Like the suffering wife of the slob-hero of John Osborne's eponymous Look Back in Anger, Dangerfield's masochistically martyred Marion is from the top people, and like that hero, Dangerfield snarls and yaps like a dog in a bear...