Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, visiting Midwesterner Henry Wallace-"a child in a terrible dark," as the London Daily Mail put it-was exploiting (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) Europe's frightened, unreasoning and very natural desire to stay away from the fire...
Charles A. Lindbergh, onetime America Firster, who used to make mind-our-own-business-and-stay-out-of-war speeches, raised his voice after long silence and plumped for "a consistent American policy toward Europe," i.e., full aid to all "peoples who believe in ... a way of life that is basically similar to our own." Observed Lindbergh: "We have destroyed Nazi Germany only to find that ... we have strengthened Communist Russia. . .. We must re-establish and protect the ideals we believe in. ... It may require the use of military force. But no necessary cost is too high...
...work to protect all the city's employees, rounded up for vaccination firemen, subway workers, social workers, policemen, hospital staff members, 1,000 guests in the city's flophouse. Some 2,500 patients who had been discharged from a city hospital during LeBar's stay there were called back for vaccination. Thousands of New Yorkers queued up at vaccination centers. At week's end, Mayor William O'Dwyer decided to "pour in every available piece of machinery and manpower to insure that every person in the city is vaccinated." He summoned the city...
...G.I.s stay healthy? The doctors' reasons: good food, plenty of water and salt, scientifically designed clothes, insect control, new drugs (e.g., atabrine). Wartime scientific research, which solved many of the problems of tropical living, also debunked a few old notions: that meat-eating in the tropics is bad, that white men cannot do physical labor in the hot season, that only "mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday...
...Conways, who still confess to enchantment, put the case with good sense and good nature: Santiago, Floreana and a few of the other Galápagos are all right for hardy folk, but eager escapists and romantics had better stay away. The Conways went there in the first place (1937) because they were almost broke. Drawing their last $500 from the bank, they bought passage and groceries, eventually found themselves with 13? left. On Santiago, their fondest neighbors were a convict and an assortment of rats, wild pigs and wild goats. On Floreana the neighbors were mostly wild cattle, which...