Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...income taxes, complaining "that doesn't help the little fellow much." Mississippi's John Rankin, a junior Bilbo, dramatically unrolled a yards-long petition bearing thousands of signatures, inviting a witch hunt for subversives in the movie industry. That would be a sure-fire way to stay in the headlines...
...after his speech, young Roosevelt realized that in publicizing the Communists' success, he had hurt his own group. He promised to stay in, help defeat the Reds and keep it loyal "to the democratic traditions of our America...
...stable of world-trotting pundits is trained (one in diplomacy, others in business, labor, nuclear fission, etc.), he expects to move them as stories break. The Trib would rely on wire services for the first 24 hours of an important story, then close in with an expert who would stay with it as long as it made news...
...first he made clear that there would be no change in his efforts to keep partisan politics out of what he believed should be called a "united American foreign policy." Said the Senator: "Partisan politics, for most of us, stopped at the water's edge. I hope they stay stopped-for the sake of America. . . . We should ever strive to hammer out a permanent American foreign policy, in basic essentials, which . . . deserves the support of all American-minded parties at all times...
Scott reported that to bring U.S. policy to fruition would cost the U.S. taxpayer at least a billion dollars. "We cannot stay in Germany," said Scott, "and continue to operate as a virtual relief agency. We are feeding Germans at the rate of $200 million to $300 million a year. This will continue indefinitely unless enough money is invested to make a going concern out of the country...