Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away their suspicions that he was too light for the job. Later, when he was confirmed, he dropped 13 of his 22 business directorships, to lay the Senators' worst fears. When he set to work, it was with the understanding between him and Harry Truman that he would stay on the job twelve months...
...thought [after the first World War] we could stay out of Europe's wars and we lost interest in the affairs of Europe. That did not keep us from being forced into a second World War. We will not again make that mistake. We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world...
Next year the A.Y.H., which admits anyone "between four and 94," expects to double its numbers (last count: 15,317). Nobody worries whether new members will kick up mischief. Says one A.Y.H. official: "Anyone who is willing to give up smoking and drinking, go to bed at 10, and stay outdoors all day, is bound to be a wholesome sort of person...
...long time travel about her country like her fellow citizens. She has given concerts in the South, where her voice is greatly admired (and where she avoids Jim Crow by traveling in drawing rooms on night trains). Even in the North, she could not until fairly recently stay at most good hotels. In the South, she must still stay with friends. In New York City, she used to leave frantically applauding audiences to sleep at the Harlem Y.W.C.A. Then Manhattan's Hotel Algonquin, longtime rendezvous of U.S. literati, received her. Now most other Northern hotels have also opened their...
...Snyder, bungled the announcement of another resignation. As a matter of courtesy, Vice President Harold D. Smith thought he ought to hand in his resignation, let the new president keep him or name a new vice president. But the bungling announcements did not mention that Smith actually wanted to stay...