Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Pfc. Marcel Beaulieu, 21, of Chicapee Falls, Mass.: "I think I'm going to stay in New York and see a couple of ball games. I've been thinking about that for a long time. I used to keep thinking about that last game...
...talk about the future, thoughts that had come to his mind during the months he spent as Admiral William F. Halsey's flag secretary. He returned, he said, deeply convinced that the U.S. must stay strong. "My Number One aim after the war will be to assist in developing a strong world policy for America. A desire for peace does not require you to become weak yourself. We must have a strong army and navy, and adequate landing forces...
...Morris L. Rotstein of Baltimore's Sinai Hospital stated in the Journal of the A.M.A. that he now lets healthy new mothers get up on the third or fourth day after delivery, sends them home on the sixth to eighth day, thus relieving ward crowding. (The usual prewar stay was ten or twelve days.) "In this series of 150, no ill effects were noted. The patients . . . were able to take care of both themselves and some of the inbed patients. . . . When allowed to go home . . . they felt strong...
...obstetrician: "A [new] mother . . . needs a complete physical rest [and] her nervous system must rest also. . . . Unless [the muscular supports] are given full opportunity to resume their normal position, inestimable harm may be done." To relieve Manhattan ward crowding, many cases are sent home early, but are advised to stay in bed a total of two weeks...
...Perfect Life. After a stay at his father's sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School...