Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned to stay on his hill the rest of the month, in comparative seclusion, coming down some time after Labor Day to hurl himself back into the active campaign. Until then, no doubt, he would do some musing on his future. Henry Wallace, who considers himself a reflective man, had plenty to think about...
...Some of the victims were his close associates.When he made charges unsubstantiated by fact against the atomic-energy policy of Bernard Baruch, he first promised Baruch a retraction, then vanished ignominiously. In crises he is apt to be simply in absentia. If his hodgepodge party breaks up he may stay with it officially but spiritually go elsewhere...
...persuaded union officials to throw in the towel. But the rank & file electrical workers defied their leaders, voted to remain on strike. Herbert then played his trump: he called out the National Guard to maintain order at the plant. This week, pickets still marched, but Univis apparently would stay open for business...
...income homes and many have to leave before graduation, Campbell concentrates on teaching every boy & girl some employable skill in the first half year. In the auto-shop course, a boy learns to grease a car; in the dressmaking course, a girl learns to cut dress parts. Students who stay become skilled craftsmen: some of Dunbar's sheet-metal graduates make $125 a week...
...director-general is Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, wartime head of the Canadian Army's medical service. A methodical administrator who gets angry if an assistant is half a minute late for an appointment, he will stay in Geneva to get WHO's machinery moving. Said he as the assembly closed: "Our delegates are too damned cooperative - at least for the press. But some day the press will admit the dramatic news values of this international cooperation...