Word: staying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is all mixed with a modern girl, the niece of the now-senile Niven, who comes to stay in the house, in 1940 and meets a young flyer. They, too, are in love but manage to hide it from each other until almost too late. The elderly uncle observes all this with disquiet, and divides his time between hearing the voice of the non-dead Lark and advising the girl to get off the dime and marry...
...year-old ex-seaman named Don Haynes arrived in San Francisco in a strange contrivance-an automobile with the doors welded shut and the windows securely barred. He announced that, living on food passed through the bars, he had been inside for several weeks, was going to stay there (with a bed, a chemical toilet and a collapsible bathtub) for 14 months, thus win the long...
...Steele and his colleagues had an answer. The Communist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain, cutting off Peiping from the world. All foreign newsmen were ordered to "cease . . . collection of news and dispatching of news telegrams." In the drab, drafty Peking Club, the correspondents met and voted to stay on, at least until they were sure the ban was permanent...
...have repeatedly said that we are both willing to resign if that is the wish of the congregation. I cannot withdraw from this fight so long as my congregation wishes me to stay...
Then Trammell's executive vice president, Charles R. Denny, let go with what sounded almost like a declaration of war. NBC was going to stay on top as the nation's No. 1 network. Said he: "It has the money and the resources to back up [its] plans. And, above all, it has the resolve to use its money, its experience, and its every effort for that purpose...