Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Must the U.S., to stay at peace, have a mammoth standing army...
...nobody can say that Lamar kids haven't a lot of enterprise and ingenuity. The kids lost money. Friday they combined the stuff they had left, opened up for business and said they were going to stay open until they sold it. They are selling their sandwiches, pop and coffee at the reduced rate of a nickel. . . . We ought all to give the kids a break, come uptown and help them out of the hole...
Finally defeated in 1942, George Norris retired to the quiet, shady house in McCook. He settled down to smoke his long-stemmed pipe, to listen to the radio, to muse over the Nebraska countryside, and to dictate his autobiography. He began to grumble that he could not "stay quiet and live...
Palmer was visiting professor at Stanford in 1941-42. During the remainder of his three-term stay here, he will continue work on a forthcoming book on governmental institutions and political theory in the United States
...face such joy as radiated from the faces of the people of Paris this morning. This is no day for restraint, and I could not write with restraint if I wanted to. Your correspondent and your photographer Bob Capa drove into Paris with eyes that would not stay dry, and we were no more ashamed of it than were the people who wept as they embraced...