Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much over a year ago the "poor, starving German Burghers" were busy with the erection of roadblocks, laying mines, stringing road cables to decapitate drivers and sniping at American soldiers. Then when they were certain that the Americans were there to stay, waving white flags and vociferously claiming to anyone foolish enough to listen that they were never Nazi. "Ich nicht Nazi" were the first words you heard on entering a town. Now these people have the whole world sorry for them. They aren't getting enough to eat. Neither are the Greeks, Dutch, Belgians, Polish, Yugoslavians, Chinese and others...
...able to hold prices down much longer. They want your right arm for a piece of ham these days." With a deft stroke of his pen he marked up ham and egg sandwiches from 35 to a tentative 40 cents. "All but a few sandwiches will stay the same," he continued, adding that he would await further moves by his competitors. Normally a power behind the scenes, Sarantos had appeared during the current crisis in Washington to take personal command of his forces...
...required University audit of all Freshmen Affairs books, and, secondly, the revision of the present amending procedure of the Constitution. Under the existing proviso it is impossible for any group but the Council itself to amend the Constitution. The corporation is not only closed, but was meant to stay closed...
Chicago newspapers clapped when Kelly "secured" Johnson's resignation. But they started howling again when ten of the old, Kelly-picked eleven-man school board announced that they were sitting tight. Their decision to stay meant just one thing: Boss Ed Kelly was ready to throw one man to the wolves, but he was still bossing Chicago's schools...
...item was $580,000 spent last fall by President Dart to move United-Rexall's headquarters from Boston to Los Angeles. This move was part of the bargain he made with United: if he could move HQ west, he would stay at $75,000 a year, instead of taking the offered presidency of Montgomery Ward and Co. at $150,000. The trade gossiped that the move was dictated by Dart's second wife, movie starlet Jane Bryan. But Dart had a more hardheaded reason. He simply thinks that in Los Angeles' pleasant climate his staff would work...