Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strictly Pink Tea. Lieut. Commander White, very much on guard, decided to stay on the bridge with the Jap captain during the search. For two and a half hours they held what White called "a strictly pink-tea conversation." The Jap captain, who said he had spent ten years in New York City as a youth, asked how the New York Yankees were doing, wanted to know if Babe Ruth was still alive, said he missed American movies and magazines. (When they went back to their ship, the Americans sent over some old copies of TIME and the Reader...
People who had nothing better to worry about last week noted a strong dendrophile tendency in the Big Three. They could not stay away from trees. There had been Bretton Woods (see below) and Dumbarton Oaks. Now they were at Potsdam, a German version of the old Slavonic name, Poztupimi, which means "under the oaks...
Back to the Farm. Two days after Hopkins quit, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. hurried to the White House. Worried Henry Morgenthau wanted to know where he stood with the new boss. He demanded a presidential letter asking him to stay on until V-J day. Harry Truman replied that he would be glad to deny all the rumors-but no letter. That was not good enough for sensitive Henry Morgenthau. In that case, the President told him, his resignation would be accepted immediately. There was no outward bitterness; the exchange of letters was cordial...
...Minister is short, shifty-eyed Admiral Petros Voulgaris. He harps on two points: 1) the need for "security"; 2) the right of Greece to northern Epirus. now a part of Albania. When I asked what he thought of Americans and Britons in Greece, he said: "I wish they would stay here forever." There is only a handful of U.S. soldiers; the British have several divisions...
Last Fling. In Philadelphia, where they infested the parks, diseased pigeons that had been scheduled for extermination were granted a three-month stay of execution...