Word: staying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Congress went home-perhaps to stay until January-a sudden quiet fell in Washington. The industrial and labor fronts were quiet, too, except for lingering disturbances like the supplier strikes which were still crippling automobile production...
Harry Truman, who had had plenty of rough sailing, set his course to the prevailing winds. The word from the White House last week was that the President would try to stay out of political controversy, try to keep out of the news, make few trips, do little campaigning. He would also make efforts to choke off unseemly intra-administration rows, once more allow the nation to feel that it was moving in peace & calm...
Coach Dick Harlow returned to his Pennsylvania home early this morning after a long weekend visit here, and his Cambridge stay was devoted entirely to discussing and observing his favorite pastime and vocation--not bird-egg hunting, as John Kieran likes to think, but football...
Bjartur has been gone for days. He knew his wife's time was near, but one of his sheep was lost, so he tramped off across the moors to find it. His wife begged him to stay at home, but he told her to hush: "I'm sick of listening to this hysterical babble." Bjartur is used to doing things his own way. He takes back talk from no one. He is, he likes to boast, an independent...
Murphy is in complete agreement on this point. He feels that all the officers of the Guild should be professional players or former players and he will be perfectly satisfied to stay on as labor relations director...