Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stay. Americans for Democratic Action, of which Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is national vice chairman, promptly announced that its executive board would meet in Pittsburgh on April 10 to endorse a man who can "enlist the united allegiance of non-Communist American progressives." A.F.L. and C.I.O. bigwigs put forth the word that they would soon come out swinging...
Meantime, Harry Truman calmly announced that he was in the race to stay...
...week's end, chances of the U.S. being one of the two looked doubtful. Said one GOP leader: "It is dead and going to stay dead. The word has gone out to that effect . . . there are some members who don't want to get mixed up with Russia in that kind of a deal." Public health men were indignantly reminding Congressmen that cholera germs do not respect national boundaries, or even iron curtains...
...wife had to open a hat store to support Matisse and their three children, but it did not stay open long; by 1908 buyers had begun to see the beauty of the beast's work. In that year he published his ambiguous Notes of a Painter, which have been quoted as his final word ever since. "What I dream of," he wrote, "is an art that is equilibrated, pure and calm, free of disturbing subject matter ... a means of soothing the soul . . . like a comfortable armchair. . . ." That simile has led critics to expect far less of Matisse than...
...chance to study such objects passing so close to the earth. Three other asteroids (the latest ten years ago) are known to have wandered inside the earth's orbit, but they were visible only briefly and have since been lost in space. Wirtanen's asteroid will probably stay around long enough for its orbit to be calculated accurately. Astronomers can keep track of it and perhaps find where it goes when it turns away from...