Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumor shifted its range. Anthony Eden, went the new word, would carry on as day-to-day Tory boss in Parliament. Winston Churchill would stay on as titular leader and as a background elder counselor. The old battler was not yet ready to be chucked into...
...cramps. I get rheumatism. I froze my ear. I shiver night & day. I [have to] stay near the stove to steam...
Radcliffe girls were admitted to Harvard classes during the war because of teacher shortages. Announcing that the girls will stay on in peacetime, Harvard beat the coed devil around the bush by calling this "joint instruction...
...situation called for a court-martial -or a mediator. At week's end, a peacemaker stepped in. Lieut. Colonel A. Delbert Clark, Mediterranean theater public-relations officer and a former New York Timesman, became "senior officer" of Stars and Stripes. The censorship was called off, Major Kestler would stay. Colonel Clark promised that the newspaper would operate "in consonance with the highest standards of American journalism and the Army. . . ." Whether their war with the brass was over or not, staffers figured they had won a skirmish...
...smoke-blackened sandstone building on Tithe Barn (pronounced tie-barn) Street in Liverpool, the world's biggest cotton exchange operated, before the war. Last week the British Board of Trade announced that the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, closed since 1939 would not reopen. The Government had decided to stay in business as Britain's only cotton importer. Britain's 400 cotton importing firms will go out of business...