Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success of this venture depends upon the number of people we can persuade to stay in their seats during the intermission," said Spear, calling for co-operation in performing not only a difficult feat, but also one of the few flash-card demonstrations on the East coast. "Little physical exertion and moderate discretion are all that are required for the desired effect," Spear concluded...
Ludwig Bemelmans, cosmopolitan chronicler of life backstairs (Hotel Splendide), headed home from London after giving Britons his inside dope on Hollywood, where he spent three years. "If you stay too long," said he gravely, "you wake up one day and find you are 84 and it's all been a pleasant dream...
...fellow priest recalls being asked to stay while Father Gibson interviewed a man who had been waiting outside for a long time. "The fellow came in," he says, "and told us one of the most pitiful stories of misfortune I have ever heard. After he had finished, I was about ready to dig down and give him everything I had. But Dave Gibson just said to him: 'Kneel down...
...Army had more than 300,000 illiterates: in G.I. slang, they were called "jugheads." But they did not stay jug-heads long. The Army boasted that it could teach illiterate draftees to read and write in eight weeks...
...limitless at 50? a drink. The Queen Elizabeth's shops had plenty of pajamas, woolen socks, and suits such as Britons have not seen for years. Out to corner the North Atlantic traffic, Britain had spared no expense nor luxury, even if it came out of the stay-at-homes' cupboard...