Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Britain the idea of P.W. fraternization no longer seemed so objectionable. In the House of Commons, Tory Martin Lindsay rose to suggest that some P.W.s should even be encouraged to stay and marry. "The advantages in adding to our labor forces thousands of industrious, highly skilled workers would appear obvious," he said, "[besides] there is today in Great Britain a 200,000 surplus of women of marriageable age. I am one of those people who believe that it is a great misfortune for women to be unable to fulfill their biological function because of a shortage...
...their eye on the team that has stopped four opponents for almost no gain and has reeled off yardage with devastating precision. Holy Cross, with a host of Orange Bowl veterans in the lineup and a 200-pound line to open the holes, is too good a team to stay in the loss column of the Sunday papers forever, and rooters from Cambridge to Worcester consider it possible that it may break loose tomorrow. There is no team the Purple would rather break loose against than Harvard...
Tentative plans for a direct-line broadcast of the Harvard-Dartmouth grid classic to Crimson Stay-at-homers were announced by the Crimson Network yesterday...
...orange-&-black arm bands labeled "G.I. Lutheran Team," they spent three weeks last month calling on each of the 600 families represented in the congregation. They pointed out to AWOL church members that though times are dark, if more people went to church, things might get brighter. Most Sunday stay-at-homes promised to mend their ways; only one family gave the G.I.s a complete brushoff...
...last week, just as the new dresses were going on sale, CPA dropped a cruncher: most of L85 would stay in effect indefinitely. In fact, said CPA, there had never been any intention of dropping it. CPA also emphasized the penalty for sellers of extra-legal dresses: one year in prison or $10,000 fine, or both. What could retailers, stuck with the unsalable dresses, do? (One New York syndicate alone had $1,000,000 worth on hand...