Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queues. In Omaha, Billy Paxton, 13, told to make a list of practices important to dental hygiene, wrote: 1) "Brush your teeth after every meal"; 2) "See your dentist twice a year"; 3) "Stay away from fountains where they push...
Fighting for some compromise that would head off costly continental "discrimination" against British steel, chemicals and other manufactures, Britain's Paymaster General Reginald Maudling offered to stay in Paris indefinitely (not exactly a fate worse than death) if necessary to negotiate...
...coaching career goes back to the war years when he taught in a Southern New Jersey high school, coached football there and, practicing nights, played professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles. As Yovicsin puts it, however, "My future was not in pro football, and I wanted very much to stay in the coaching profession. Playing for the Eagles would have kept me away from some of my team's games, so I decided to stop playing." A few years later he returned to Gettysburg, his alma mater, as an assistant coach of football...
Yovicsin enjoyed the quiet life of a coach in a small college and settled down in Gettysburg with hopes to stay there a long time. His family liked the area very much and soon moved into a house which Yovicsin planned himself. His salary was excellent, and he was a member of the faculty with tenure. Yet on March 12 of this year he accepted the position of head coach of football at Harvard...
Just six months earlier, he had discussed with his wife whether or not he should apply for one of the several excellent coaching jobs which were then available. They decided to stay in Gettysburg. Yovicsin did not like the insecure prospect of coach at a school where a coach had to win consistently or lose his job. He preferred to stay where...