Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rigors of northern winters, it was soon clear that many of them had never even been on a farm, let alone sown anything but wild oats. The first months were a long nightmare; a wheat crop failed because of a poor choice of seed. Some settlers had to stay in tents during the long dark winter. Slowly, their number dwindled (537 left in the first four years) leaving the strong and the dogged, who bought up the abandoned land. Gradually the birthrate climbed, the bulldozers and the plows and the buildings moved into the wilderness...
...movie of this type, it is a rare director who can resist the temptation to play up the ominous threat of the Nazis. Peter Glenville manages to stay away from this chestnut until the end, when it is consequently more effective. Although his direction is not brilliant, it is consistent, and while the camera work generally dull, there are a few good moments...
...mind. There is first an optimistic postulate according to which the French nation, underneath all its divisions, still possesses a dormant general will which could be aroused by a dynamic and stable government. There is also the pessimistic idea that the divisions of the electorate are here to stay, that no constitutional trickery could erase them, and consequently that the Executive will be strong only if it is removed from intimate contact with an electorate and a Parliament which remain unable to produce a coherent majority...
...When I first got here I had to stay up most of the first night convincing my roommate that I wasn't going to burn a cross in the living room or something like that. He wanted to move out," one sophomore from Georgia related. "He was from Connecticut...
...drew athletic equipment. Then "Abdie" took a series of physical examinations, visited the library, met his teachers and headmaster, the Rev. Matthew Warren, received his first homework assignment. But for the little boy from Casablanca it also meant something special: the start of at least a year's stay...