Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...West could almost hear the Soviet tanks gunning their engines on the other side of the Iron Curtain. The U.S. and its European allies were determined not to be caught as unprepared as they had been when the Nazis invaded. So in the early 1950s they began training "stay behind" networks of volunteers. If the Soviet army rolled west, the groups were to gather intelligence, open escape routes and form resistance movements...
...said she turned down offers to stay with friends because "I feel like I might be uncomfortable if I went home with people, and I might be really homesick...
...Thanksgiving's a tough time for a lot of people, like the poor or homeless," Middleton said. "The problems they face during the rest of the year, like isolation, are just intensified. Even for first-years [who stay at Harvard during Thanksgiving] it doesn't live up to the expectations people have...
There were similar mixed messages in other states. In Illinois, Democrat Neil Hartigan promised to remove an unpopular 2% income tax surcharge, while Republican James Edgar admitted he would keep the levy in place. Edgar privately asked George Bush to stay away, fearing the anger that Bush's tax reversal had bred. Voters overwhelmingly wanted a rollback -- but did not trust Hartigan to do it. Edgar won by 52% to 48%. Nebraska's Republican Governor, Kay Orr, went back on her pledge not to raise taxes, as did Florida's Martinez and Governor Mike Hayden in Kansas. All three lost...
...which Saddam withdraws from Kuwait with his military intact. Yet the President has also compared Saddam to Hitler, who is identified in the public mind as a ruler so vicious that the only solution is to destroy him. Critics charge besides that any settlement permitting the Iraqi dictator to stay in control of an army equipped with chemical, biological and eventually perhaps nuclear weapons makes nearly impossible the restoration of stability and security in the gulf area -- a restoration that the President has declared is an important...