Word: stays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hubert Humphrey, he could only enjoy it all-without being actually carried away. "Last year at this time," crowed a Humphrey aide, "it was Sputnik was in orbit. This year it is Humphrey in orbit." Said shrewd Presidential Hopeful Humphrey, overhearing the remark: "It will be O.K. if I stay in orbit longer than Sputnik...
Beneath the sound of saber rattling could be heard one steady note, that Russia is there to stay in East Germany, and that the usefulness of this unhappy but economically valuable possession is jeopardized by West Berlin's shiny attraction. West Berlin continues to draw up to 10,000 East German refugees each month-including much of the intellectual elite, doctors, technicians, professors and university students...
Interviewing officials did not know whether to consider him a self-appointed, Rudolf Hess-like emissary from the East, a Soviet propagandist or a crazy mixed-up author. They finally decided to let him stay...
...diseased French girl who presided behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there in the warm pink exciting womb-like garret until the basketball jocks dropped in for pear-filled fumates, bringing with them the stench of the cages...of Harvard. Of Cambridge, that book-lined, brick-paved prison...
...Communist case against the novel. Apart from Pasternak's sympathy for bourgeois characters, they cited 1) his failure to distinguish between the several wings of the revolutionary movement and even between the February (Democratic) and the October (Bolshevik) revolutions; 2) the unheroic desire of his characters to stay alive. From the editors' point of view, both criticisms were just...