Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall had resolved to stay out of a propaganda contest with the Russians, yet Marshall answered: "We . . . sincerely desire to see a democratic government established in Germany at the earliest possible moment." Said Bevin: "It is the desire of the British government that at the earliest possible opportunity a central government should be established. But . . . how is it to be elected? What powers is it to have...
...France-whistled. Lena could do no wrong: she even got away with a song in schoolgirl French. After the show, admirers followed her to her dressing room. Next day France Soir splashed a three-column picture of her on Page One, and captioned it: "A triumph."* Would she stay on in France, as Josephine Baker had? Said Lena: "Hell no! I got a family in Brooklyn...
...have more of these parties." This remark was widely repeated. "The bahstud," muttered one of those who knew that Attlee's government had carried its austerity drive deep into the wedding festivities, by shortening the length and speeding up the pace of the procession, by asking workers to stay at their jobs, and even, at first, by refusing to put the Household Cavalry in full dress. When the Cavalry turned up in full dress in Sir Alexander Korda's movie An Ideal Husband, released a week before the wedding, the government backed down...
...easygoing pidgin, one word does the work of 20, a shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...
...head man in the nation's largest university traveled East from his eight-campus real'n of 41, 451 students for a Thanksgiving visit with Robert Jr. 21, and ten-month-old grandson Robert III ("we're forming a dynasty"). President Canant acted as host during the four-day stay in Cambridge...