Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extraordinarily responsive to alcohol, Gould once gave gin its free rein, but now he's on the wagon. He claims he'll stay away from hard liquor until his ninetieth birthday; "then I'm going to get drunk and stay that way, even if it kills me." But the way things look now, nicotine may get him before alcohol...
...other Premier in Japanese history had been able to stay in office through so many national disasters. But Koiso had stayed, perhaps because Japan did not want to acknowledge her serious plight before the world and because his ousting would have to be made to look like another "strengthening" of the Government. If Koiso fell, what successor would sound strengthening? The international grapevine mentioned two well-known names...
...swaggering soldier-politician who had defied the U.S., while Argentine militarists were trying to fasten on their reluctant nation a modified version of European Fascism. Candidate Perón, with the Nazis gasping on the ropes, was the smoothest of democrats. Obviously, he realized that his best chance to stay in power was to attach himself to the winning side, get himself elected as a "democratic" President...
...very few to receive regrets from him: "Very sorry . . . but too busy with the Poles." Playwright Hellman, who spoke no Russian when she left on her trip but came back with a few words, declared that she had "nothing but contempt for people who go to Russia . . . stay six weeks without even speaking the language," and come back authorities...
...with a scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy and some financial help from his parents, he set out for a look at the artistic life of France. His trip stretched into a four-year stay, during which he studied, worked and learned to carry a sketch pad wherever he went-even when he ventured into Paris' high-kicking night life. Unlike many a French-influenced U.S. painter who works his way toward the abstract, Levi plunged early into abstractions and progressed back toward a sort of poetic realism with surrealist overtones. A slow worker who produces less than a dozen...