Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stay as we are-nice to look at and so very comfortable...
...closing session of Rio's Inter-American Defense Conference and the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, and get set for a round of official festivities unmatched in Brazilian history (see LATIN AMERICA). At the request of Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra, he would extend his stay from five to seven days, to help celebrate Brazil's 125th Independence Day. The big fiesta would be a pleasure for Harry Truman, who always has a wonderful time and does a wonderful good-will job on trips abroad...
...reason why artists like to do still lifes is because they are the easiest kind of painting. Models that stay put are a big help; and such typical still life subjects as apples, books, pipes, when carefully copied, have a kind of teasing charm-like candy in a showcase. But the champions of still life, from Memling* to Picasso, have found its very simplicity a challenge...
...longest in which the U.S. ever operated in the red. The infant republic broke about even on deficits and surpluses from 1789 to 1800. Thereafter, Treasury spokesman Albert Gallatin, a strong advocate of high taxes to cut public debt, got it into the habit of trying to stay in the black. The U.S. has managed surpluses in 95 of its 158 years, but has never been entirely out of debt. Lowest point of the national debt was $37,513 (in 1835); the peak was $279.2 billion (Feb. 28, 1946). Current national debt: $258 billion...
...ballet number might amount to something; and the finale-a sort of genteel Walpurgisnacht in an enormously enlarged Gramercy Park-nearly picks the heavy show up and carries it places. The picture has really attractive songs by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher (best: Let's Stay Young Forever and People Have More Fun Than Anyone...