Word: stays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elli had a very hard journey. Her party was forced to walk for the first two days, and many of the women broke down and were left by the wayside, and Elli does not know their fate . . . The officer in charge said: "If you cannot get along, stay here and go 'kaputt...
...hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy the object is to match up the cards and get out fast; in Canasta the idea is to stay in and roll the score...
With M.N.R. once more on the march, Hertzog's ministers pleaded with him to stay. Hertzog's unhappy answer: "Gentlemen, I appeal to your human feelings to let me go." During the month or two that the 62-year-old President planned to rest in the lower altitudes of northwest Bolivia's yungas (valleys), elegant, easygoing Vice President Mamerto Urriolagoitia would take over at the palace. Many Bolivians feared that Dr. Hertzog's patient might not live to see his return...
...Derby spectators was surprised to see speedy Olympia, with Jockey Eddie Arcaro up, flash to the front. Arcaro, gunning for his fifth Derby (he had already won four, one more than any other jock), knew that his colt could set a blazing pace, and any rival who tried to stay with him might kill himself off. Arcaro also knew that if one of the others succeeded in forcing the pace far enough Olympia might be the one killed off. Jockey Ted Atkinson on Capot elected...
...body of the race, and rose to a 36 or 37 at the finish. He dismissed briefly suggestions from others that they might be rowing at a more leisurely rate, urging the information that in a race a crew has to maintain a beat of at least 32 to stay in contention...