Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advantages of becoming professionals, most Reservists are fed up, want only one thing from the Navy: to get out as soon as possible after the war. Keynoting their bitter feeling, one Reserve officer, a veteran of two years in the Pacific, wrote last week: "I wouldn't stay in the goddam Navy if I starved to death on the outside. I have met very few officers who don't share my sentiments. The man 30 or older who wants to stay in is a rare exception. If a man has ever held a responsible civilian...
...last week, with Europe's war over, they had long since changed their minds: most of them wanted to stay in the U.S. An Oswego liaison committee and Chairman Samuel Dickstein of the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee agreed that they should stay. But many Oswegonians (plus Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler) thought they should be held to the letter of the agreement: they had said they would go back, now let them...
Peter Ourousoff, a White Russian, summed it up: "We have signed a paper saying we would return to our homeland. But where is it? We have none. For us to go back is suicide." Carl Selan voiced their hope: "If we could stay here America would find many of us would be assets. . . . We want only to obey the law, to have peace, liberty...
...society enfant terrible; after a brief illness; in London. Her gossipy books (More or Less about Myself, Off the Record) about famed friends and enemies never violated her premise that "reticence is dull reading." Her lifetime of audacities included writing a note in pencil to Queen Victoria, declining to stay at a dinner party despite King Edward's request, staging a fashion show at No. 10 Downing Street...
...Unlike the old high school in which no one was compelled to stay if he could not or did not wish to do the work, the modern high school must find place for every kind of student whatever his hopes and talents. It cannot justly fail to adapt itself, within reason...