Word: stay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi radio scoffed: "The first Indian troops have arrived in France. This recalls to us the Indian troops used in the World War. The English then mobilized 650,000 Indians, 300,000 of which were sent to France. The rest had to stay in India for police patrolling. The Indians had great losses in France as they were not at all used to the winter climate and because they were sent into the front lines. Nearly 50% of them were annihilated. This was in accordance with the British proverb, 'Empire troops into the front lines, we will stay behind...
...presidential candidate, but you are just a Childe Harolde to me. Just how old does one get in thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...
Lieut. Neely thought he saw one parachuted form, then another, dive away through the dust. He opened the canopy over his cockpit, prepared to follow. He paused: what of the third man, whom he had not seen? If he for some reason had stayed in the ship, he would surely die. Pilot Neely decided to stay, too, and fly the ship down. In the dusty dark, unbroken as he neared the ground, he had only his lighted instruments to tell him whether he was on an even keel, only his altimeter to tell him when he was close...