Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Classicist Victor Martin of Geneva University. Menander emerged (circa 342-291 B.C.) during the decline of Athens, an era dominated by the Macedonian occupation. His audiences were no longer intellectually vibrant Greeks; they had an appetite for pulp stories that might have made them content watching a TV western. "Stay at home." one of his characters says. "A man is free nowhere else." Menander gave the Greeks sharply etched, lifelike stories, tenderly observed and hilariously written...
...night party with top entertainers (Patti Page, Vic Damone, Peggy Lee, Pat Boone, etc.). The temperature in Miami was in the 80s, and there were circles of sweat even under the tone arms of the companies' endlessly blaring phonographs. But most of the D.J.s would stay happy for another year, and that is what mattered-for, as all the companies agreed: "Without you, boy, we're dead...
When 332 American Newspaper Guild members walked out of Sam Newhouse's St. Louis Globe-Democrat last Feb. 21, no one really expected them to stay out for long. The strike issues-chiefly pensions and job security-scarcely sounded desperate or even irreconcilable. But the guild was well heeled and angry, and Sam Newhouse, with the paper closed down, was not taking a heavy net loss from day to day. Within a week the walkout turned into a bitter siege...
Died. Sir David William Bone, 84, British master mariner who went to sea at 15, commanded troopships under fire in two wars (last to leave the torpedoed transport Cameronia in World War I, he grabbed the stay of a destroyer alongside as his ship sank), wrote several books about the sea (The Brassbounder, The Queerfella); in Farnham, England...
...anxious to clear the tables in a hurry, the girls are less likely to linger over their meals in serious conversation--"education through free-wheeling discussion," he termed it. "One of the most wonderful things in the Harvard House system is mealtime," he stated. "I usually find I stay an hour for lunch, and that's good. The level of discussion in Harvard Houses is apt to be very high...