Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Traffic Jam. Harry Truman had entered office with the firm belief that government must, as far as possible, stay out of labor-management disputes. His failure lay in the fact that the people-their representatives, their unions and their industrialists-were not ready to resume their responsibilities. By going on the assumption that they were, he had weakened the authority and position of the presidency...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. declared that she wished the remains of her husband (Quentin's brother) to lie at Ste. Mère-Eglise in Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
...dentistry at the University of Michigan, spoke a heartfelt mouthful about mothers who insist on following their young into the operating room. Particularly objectionable: the mother-knows-it-hurts type; the ones who say "Johnny, spit like the dentist told you to." Mama, Dr. McBride forcibly implied, should stay the hell in the waiting room...
...women will want to get in next fall-and there will be room for only 1,600,000. Among the 480,000 turned away will be 270,000 veterans. The U.S. college population, which increased 600% from 1900 to Pearl Harbor, is now about to double-and will stay that...
Once a year* all U.S. Catholics are asked to take the public pledge of the Legion of Decency: "... I acknowledge my obligation to form a right conscience about pictures that are dangerous to my moral life. ... I pledge myself to remain away from them. I promise, further, to stay away altogether from places of amusement which show them as a matter of policy...