Word: staying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several hundred students who occupied the building to protest the University's involvement with the Vietnam War effort and its expansion in Cambridge used the Faculty room as their forum during their day-and-a-half-long stay...
After one day at Duke, my Harvard friend and I joked of never returning to Cambridge. But despite the superficial attractions of a USC with academics, Duke is marred by a nasty undercurrent of illiberalism. At the end of our four-day stay, I couldn't imagine spending four years at Duke...
...which he says had become his "hell on earth." In 1976, several weeks after Adams found a job repairing pallets, he was arrested for the slaying of a Dallas policeman. At one point, with only three days to spare, he was saved from execution by a U.S. Supreme Court stay while the Justices considered a legal technicality...
Ueberroth's predecessor, Bowie Kuhn, banished Detroit pitcher Denny McLain for half a year in 1970 for financing a betting shop. In 1979 and in 1983 Kuhn politely ordered casino glad-handers Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle to stay away from baseball until they quit playing golf with gamblers. To much applause, Ueberroth rescinded that ban four years ago. In the last week of his tenure (Giamatti takes office April 1), the Rose affair may make him wonder if that was such a great signal...
...instead of selecting the MX or Midgetman, perhaps the President might be wiser to stay with the existing Minuteman. -- Why U.S. Jews are unhappy with the rigid policies of Israel's Yitzhak Shamir. -- House Republicans put some lash in their whip by electing contentious Newt Gingrich as their No. 2 man. -- The swain of cocaine: a DEA Don Juan made cases by making love...