Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call him "master of land, sea & air." TIME said that the campaign he organized and led "was a masterpiece of organization as well as cunning surprise," that he "had proved himself a pitiless war lord." Said the caption under his picture: "He got there first-can he stay there last...
...clear last week that if the Navy had anything to say about it the U.S. Navy was in Guam to stay...
Through two long hearings and bales of newspaper editorials, the campaign never let up. Once it reached such heights that hot-headed Congressmen wanted to impeach Labor Secretary Frances Perkins for ordering a stay in the proceedings. In 1942, with the country at war and Red-loving Harry Bridges furiously loading ships for Russia and the Allies, the case seemed finally washed out. Then suddenly, inexplicably, Attorney General Francis Biddle opened it again, ordered Harry Bridges deported...
...Germans kept on fighting. General Ike commented: "I have searched and searched to find their reason for prolonging the agony." He finally decided there were two reasons: Hitler, with his determination to stay on, and the "one hope" that the Allies would split apart. "They had that desperate hope, unquestionably. Otherwise there was no sense in taking the last month of pounding...
Koch: "Why worry? That's my business and I am calm." Turning to Rospigliosi, Koch added: "Come and see me this afternoon in jail. Have a good lunch. Sorry I can't lunch with you. I must stay with these gentlemen." (He pointed at the carabinieri.) Late that evening Koch saw his fiancee, Tamara, who broke down and wept...