Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...raid shortly before Christmas vacation, officers reportedly caught a number of men using the restroom for sex. Those men were not arrested but were given warnings to stay off University property, police said...
...mail is erratic, and penguins vastly outnumber people. Thousands of miles from friends and families, the residents of Antarctica are often confined to small areas around their bases. At many stations, living quarters are built underground so that they are protected from the wind. When storms force workers to stay indoors for days at a time, it amounts to their being trapped in a bunker...
Along about February the annual exodus begins in earnest. Once the cold season takes hold, planes stop making regular flights to inland stations, and the ice layer spreads out to sea, making access by ship nearly impossible. Only a few hundred residents stay through the winter...
Right-wingers may be correct in claiming "a very significant victory." In a pale but disturbing analogue of the Lysenko affair, scientific judgments have been alloyed, if only slightly, with politico-religious dogma, creating / an unwelcome precedent for a nation that needs to stay even -- in some cases to catch up -- with its competitors. The camel's nose is now in the tent...
...someone avoiding exposure is naturally intriguing. And Pynchon's fiction, with its emphasis on suspected conspiracies and coded significances, makes him seem a dandy candidate for a guru. If he ever went public, he could be buried in acolytes overnight. Which is a fine reason for Pynchon to stay right where he is, in enviable possession of a mystique far bigger than any single, flawed, vulnerable human...