Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of Kukang, and all of Quemoy, now live-and die-by the calendar. On the odd days of the month, when Red shells pour thunderously in from the mainland, the people of Kukang stay holed in their shelters-grandmothers, babies, ducks and chickens squeezed tightly into dank caves, protected from the cold November winds only by tattered curtains of sacking. Their schools long since closed, children play in the caves with chunks of shrapnel. Night closes in early. By 6 p.m. the people have cleaned their bowls of rice, bean curd and cabbage and settled down on straw mats...
...said Grace, "we are not getting on well enough together." He cited Latin American answers to a LIFE poll that asked: "Should this country take sides with the East, the West, or stay out of the cold war altogether?" In Caracas 68% felt that their country should be neutralist, in Mexico City 66%, in Buenos Aires 62%, in Montevideo 51%, in Bogota 49%, and in Lima 34%-"This," said Grace, "is a very rude awakening to the realities." Grace's suggested solutions: ¶ A Secretary for Hemisphere Affairs modeled after Britain's Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations...
...stone house near Washington's Rock Creek Park, two "For Sale" signs were spiked forlornly in the lawn. Inside, curious house seekers noted the scarred plaster, peeling paint, grotesquely overstuffed furniture, shabby, faded Oriental rug that had been replaced by a shiny new one during much of the stay of the previous tenant, former Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams...
...tidy empire, Spayth has no heir apparent. His only son wants to stay in the drug business; his only daughter has a family to raise. Last week, at 66, Spayth was hunting for a successor with a characteristically flip and frank tactic. WANTED-A SUCKER LIKE I WAS, read his want ad in the Publishers' Auxiliary, a Chicago trade paper. Spayth's scheme: to hire someone willing to work as hard as he does, in return for a regular salary plus weekly lOUs that would be converted into a down payment on the paper. Spayth's condition...
...class. Other teachers called the boy psychotic; one predicted: "That kid will kill somebody some day. We hope to God it isn't a teacher." Said the dean of boys: "You should stop and consider the boy's condition before you wake him. Some of these kids stay out all night on benders and need the sleep the next day." Lapsing into the tone of breathless outrage chronic in newspaper exposes, Allen wrote: "I was stunned. Was this a junior high school or a sober-ing-up tank for juvenile drunkards...