Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Protestant groups and the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union for offering to finance even part of the Pope's multi-million dollar visit. The groups insisted that the city not pay for the papal Mass on Boston Common. The City Council, however, granted $750,000 for the Pontiff's overnight stay...
...remaining tenants in the building may press the Cambridge Rent Control Board to stall their evictions because Harvard has no permit, one tenant who wished to remain anonymous said. "Some people are upset enough by everything that's happened to stay and fight," tenant John Henze added...
...relatives out West. Jesse James stirred such a spirited buzzard of legend and myth that, after he was shot dead, subsequent generations were persuaded by transparent impostors that the St. Joe desperado was, yessir, still alive. Questions about James (Was he a Robin Hood or mere hood?) will long stay alive...
...Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II, who may or may not have escaped the Bolshevik assassins in 1918; undying interest has given wide hearings to several claimants to the identity of Anastasia. The divergent ideological fevers of mid-century America guaranteed that the Alger Hiss perjury case would stay effectively open right along with the case of the executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The arguments in both trials are still thundering forth in such books as Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein (against Hiss) and We Are Your Sons by Robert and Michael Meeropol (for the Rosenbergs...
...most sumptuous sets to be seen on Broadway, and to Peter and Garry Foy, who supervised the flying sequences. Under their direction, flying seems not only effortless, but fun. In one spectacular moment at the end, Duncan even soars over the balcony, an extra delight for those who stay for the curtain calls...