Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This MGM production presents a delicate rearrangement of the queen and the knight on a chess-board they have seen at least twice before, in "Keeper of the Flame" and "Woman of the Year." It does not present merely a re-grooved record; Katie and Tracy manage to stay in character in an intelligent comedy that has good lines, a virtue plays like "The Wind is Ninety" don't feel is necessary. There's even a quote from T. S. Eliot--"April is the cruelest month"--which must be some kind of record for the movies...
Even the smallest bridge or road junction was guarded simultaneously by Yugoslavs and Gurkhas, Yanks or New Zealanders. The Yugoslav command had a lot to learn about Yanks. Yugoslav girl troops often stood guard at one end of a bridge, Yanks at the other. The girls did not stay on their own side very long-gum, candy, and wristwatches were fascinating...
...fighting the Pacific war cut their slogans to fit their hopes. The most optimistic have clung to "Home alive by '45." A few have made it; more will make it before this year's end, but for most it is only a mirage. Those who stay may take their choice from among the following: "Out of the sticks in '46"; "From hell to heaven in '47" and the old standby, "Golden Gate...
Casadesus made an annual U.S. tour, and in 1940 brought Gaby and their two sons for a holiday. When the Nazis invaded France, the family decided to stay, and subleased* the oldest (preRevolutionary) stone house in Princeton, N.J., complete with Hessian ghost...
...soil for epidemics is ready for planting-far more refugees than in 1918, people without homes, people without food or soap. But fortunately, reports General Draper, most stay-at-home western Europeans have come through the war in fairly good condition. The French death rate actually dropped during German occupation (to 16.9 per 1,000 in 1943 compared with a U.S. rate of 10.9) even though individual rations were 500 calories a day less than the average 2,500-a-day requirement...