Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the street." Moscow Bureau Chief John Walker is visiting his family, temporarily in Vienna awaiting some solution to the Moscow housing shortage. Correspondent William Krehm announces from Lima, Peru, that, pending the arrival and installation of the "Chicago" (Peruvian for an indispensable bathroom fixture), he will have to stay home...
...prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat and bad flying weather, they admit, many a pigeon just hasn't the guts to stay the distance. Others meet French lady friends on the way home and decide to give up racing. What burned the pigeon people was the callous remark made by London's Columnist Paul Holt. "Well," he asked, "would you come home...
Shinwell said that if these demands were granted now Britain's whole economic machine might be thrown out of gear. But Shinwell knew that he had to stay on good terms with Horner if any coal at all is to be mined. So Shinwell helplessly held out his hands, shrugged and said: "I come in a mood of appeasement...
Some 4,000 years ago, according to Japanese legend, the Buddhist priest Bodhidharma tried to stay awake for seven years. In the fifth year he got sleepy and cut off his eyelids. They took root. From the leaves of the bushes that grew, he made a brew that enabled him to finish his vigil. That's how tea began...
Bobby Locke plans to stay around for at least three more tournaments before returning to his home in Johannesburg. He expects to be back in the U.S. for the golden 1948 winter circuit...