Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning the guests learned what Lange had known all during the party-that Russia had peremptorily questioned Norway about her joining the proposed North Atlantic Defense Pact, in effect had warned her to stay out of it. Scandinavia's period of fence-sitting was coming to a close...
...asked his mother to stay with him. Churchmen who visited them reported mother Mindszenty and her son to be calm and happy. Priests said that whenever government officials came to see the cardinal, he proudly held his hand higher & higher as they bent to kiss his ring...
When the pilot is lying down, his blood tends to stay put because most of his body is on the same level. Air Force doctors have proved that a pilot in the prone position bed can take from ten to twelve "Gs"* of centrifugal force without blacking out. Four and one half Gs is about all a sitting pilot can take without a cumbersome G-suit...
...Save for the wartime year 1944, when the Browns surprised everybody by winning their first pennant since the American League was organized in 1901, the threadbare Browns went from bad to worse. About a year ago, the Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured on sport pages as a bearded hillbilly leading a forlorn hound dog. Except for special occasions, the attendance followed the pattern...
...dozen years before, he had been an unnoticed mediocrity on the soggy-ballad circuit around Chicago nightclubs. He had given up singing for selling cars, songwriting (It Only Happens Once) and, during the war, defense work. But, says Frankie, the son of a Chicago barber, "I couldn't stay away from it long . . . I hadda get up in front and sing." In 1946, he made only $2,000 at it. Then things began to happen-for one, his recording of That's My Desire caught on belatedly, sold a million records. The way the bobby-soxers started crowding...