Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they left the train at Camp Shanks, out of long habit they formed ranks. Then an unreal officer told them unreal things through a loudspeaker. "We want to make your stay here pleasant and short. You leave tomorrow for your homes...
...suddenly, after a hurry-up Stettinius visit to the White House, the offer was withdrawn. Cohen's friends had their own explanation: Harry Hopkins had cast the blackball. Incensed, Ben Cohen resigned from Government service, was persuaded to stay only after an hour's conference with Franklin Roosevelt himself...
...could choose five when I myself was not allowed to remain. So I decided to ask for volunteers. ... I had a lump in my throat at the hands which went up before the words were scarcely out of my mouth, and at the cries of 'Please let me stay!' ... As our trucks pulled away at dusk, it was the saddest day in my 32 months in the Army...
...give me a home near the Capitol dome, With a yard where little children can play; Just one room or two, any old thing will do, Oh, we can't find a pla-ace to stay...
There were two hitches: 1) the Sun must wait nearly two years for Caniff, until his present contract runs out in October 1946; 2) even then, Terry and his pals (Burma, the Dragon Lady, et al.) will stay in the Colonel's stable-because the rights to Terry belong to the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Though this arrangement is common practice in the comic-syndicate field, it has been Caniff's most compelling complaint against his present boss. When he works for Marshall Field he will own his own strip, and also...