Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million that it will. Sixteen centuries ago a great Christian (Saint Ambrose) laid it down that Christians have no right to go to war "unless driven to it." There are enough people in the U.S. who feel the way Ambrose felt about it, so that the Russians need not stay awake nights...
...Marshall approach" is one obvious way of trying to stave off a situation in which war would be inevitable. Another attempt is the Wedemeyer mission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to find out how to help China and Korea stay out of the hands of the Communists. If that mission develops a "Wedemeyer approach" to Asia, it may cost the U.S. a few billions...
...Indian textiles, to a dancing school, to a chewing-gum ad ("[Gum] is the height of good taste"). Now, she announced, she had a job, as plain Miss Mountbatten, in the Manhattan publicity offices of Columbia Pictures Corp., and liked the U.S. so much that she had decided to stay...
Freezing is not the only hazard in an earthworm's uncertain life: burrowing beetles, bloodthirsty slugs, spiders and porcupines are all constant menaces. Worms stay below ground until nightfall, when they can safely emerge to do their courting and prowling. Living such a life, the earthworm is intensely nervous and sensitive to the slightest vibration of danger. Though blind, it has learned to pick up the tremors of an approaching sparrow and to snap back into its hole like a rubber band...
...Mountaintop. He withdrew into scholarship. Having mastered Yiddish and Hebrew, he delved deep into Jewish culture, became a Zionist. In 1922, after being shipwrecked on the way, he landed in Palestine. There he decided to stay for the rest of his life. In 1925, when Jewish and British notables gathered on Mount Scopus to dedicate Hebrew University, he was made its first chancellor...