Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happened, Ambassador Geneê's fate was far from cruel. Things were so rough and unpredictable back in revolutionary France in 1793 that Citizen Genêt, fearing death by guillotine, asked Washington if he could stay on in the U.S. as Private Citizen Genêt. Washington's response: O.K. So Genet retired quietly to New York State, there wed the daughter of Governor De Witt Clinton, let the Revolution go by as he lived out his life with a big smile...
...United Fund drives, also lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive, and it refused to guarantee that local commitments would be allowed to run their course. When the A. & R. F. asked the N.F.I.P. to stay out of its bailiwick for at least a year, N.F.I.P. replied: "Individual diseases are not the personal property of individual organizations...
...rang incessantly; Cleveland television station WEWS had never had so many complaints in a single day. When the umpteenth belligerent caller demanded, "How long are you going to keep the U.N. session on the air?", General Manager James C. Hanrahan finally blew a fuse. "How long will the marines stay in Lebanon?" he shouted, and banged the receiver down in disgust...
...helicopter too bulky to be agile. Under Chief KTLA Engineer John Silva's supervision, designers kept whittling away, brought the weight down to 368 lbs., which a Bell G-2 helicopter could easily handle. The two-man crew was picked for their light weight and warned to stay thin. The pilot doubles as observer, and the copilot does everything else, including aiming and setting the camera. Silva and G.E. engineers solved the transmitting problem by tacking a 3-ft.-long modified helical antenna on the whirlybird, setting up a receiving dish atop KTLA's Mount Wilson power plant...
...satellite's radio signals were picked up all around the earth on its first trip, which took about in minutes. Its high point is 1,400 miles above the earth, its low point 170 miles. It will probably stay up for several years...