Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After it was all over, the perspiring lost & found committee measured its take: 50 pairs of gloves, dozens of handkerchiefs, four coats, five umbrellas, a Shriner's button. It was not excessive, considering the number of women (3,000) and the length of their stay (five days...
...streets of Stoke last week (with only nine days until his time in Britain was up), people shook his hand and told him not to worry. From all over England, letters poured in blasting the Government and offering assistance. The Government retreated. This week it extended Davis' stay in Britain until January (when the weather in Stoke is wont to be particularly foul...
...forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire furniture against the walls...
Almost from the start, sales paid the workshop's way. Soon Peruvian Government officials began to take an interest. Men like Haya de la Torre, chief of the dominant APRA party, dropped in for a look and stayed to listen. Pipe-puffing Truman Bailey's program for Peru's back-country Indians,,they agreed, made sense. Now big U.S. companies (Westinghouse for one) are bidding for exclusive foreign sales rights. Bailey, who will stay with the, project, is not rushing into the export field. But both he and the Peruvian Government, which needs dollar credits, are looking...
...reporter cannot stay two weeks in the poisoned atmosphere of Warsaw without developing a bias which ... is bound to color his reports, and there is no correspondent in Poland today who hasn't in his heart aligned himself with either the Communist-dominated Government or ... Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant party." Bigart had, for one; he was now firmly antiCommunist. He added: "There is no middle ground, no impartial witness...