Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wooden hut outside Kuala Lumpur, revealed the news that the pair were married two weeks ago in a proxy ceremony lasting five minutes. The Sultan was irate that the news got out, and would not say which if any of his previous wives he had divorced in order to stay inside the Islamic maximum. But Grandpa felt he had to tell all; otherwise there would be talk about his granddaughter being on a cruise with the Sultan. "People." said Grandpa, "were saying all sorts of nasty things. She was a joget girl, and you know how vulnerable dancers...
...clamor going on last week about U.S. shows on British TV. "Is BBC short of British ideas?" screamed London's weekly The People. "The latest American import [the Phil Silvers Show] plunged us into the heart of U.S. Army life, and as the series is here to stay, we've just got to get used to the slang. A pity the B (for British) BC can't devise a British series." The tabloid Daily Mirror complained of "four American filmed programmes from the BBC ... on an English Easter...
...have pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games to depose nine-year World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 12½-9½. Anxious to meet all challengers, Smyslov expects to face no females. Says he: "They could not stay silent for five hours straight...
...performs in keeping Strauss on his toes and airing important AEC disputes is an essential one. A Democratic Congress can try to get the President to reappoint Murray, if only by the expedient of log-rolling. It might be worth sending Scott McLeod to Ireland, if Thomas Murray could stay...
...Orientation week in September social mixers and Crimson Key tours are planned, and later, arrangements for dinner engagements and weekends at local students' homes will hel pease the foreign student into Cambridge society. A particularly worthwhile part of the HIACOM plan will be to arrange for foreign students to stay in American homes over the holidays...