Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brian Donlevy. Offering the newsmen cigarettes and lemonade, he urged that no one worry about the deposed President because his good friend (and fellow graduate at Sandhurst) was being retired on a double pension and was leaving for Britain, as "it might be too embarrassing for him to stay here." Why had he fired Mirza? "Somehow or other, people felt that he was as much responsible for the political deterioration as anyone else." Besides, the armed farces wanted "a man at the helm that people have complete faith...
...type keys. The result has been staggering. Getting keys to their own front doors has done more to Westernize many Japanese than any other single factor." Kano's tenants agree. "Formerly," said one last week, "either my wife or myself or one of the children simply had to stay home when the rest were out: Japanese houses are quite open and there is no way of keeping anything safe in a house that does not lock. Now we all go out together and no one worries. This little flat piece of metal is wonderful. It gives us privacy...
...food is wretched, the beds are lumpy and the place has no central heating. But to Turkey's top newsmen, a stay at the "Ankara Hilton" has become a matter of personal and professional pride. Reason: the wryly nicknamed "Ankara Hilton" is the special bullpen in Ankara's Central Prison for newsmen who have dared to criticize the government of Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes...
...will spin off theater and radio operations in new company. Management was up against antitrust order to separate film and theater business by August 1959, has won fight against minority group of directors who want to spin off troubled M-G-M filmmaker. M-G-M will stay in parent firm...
...customer wants to think he drove a hard bargain. The retailer helps him kid himself. And the retailer and the manufacturer get together to back up their inflated price." Many a merchant blames his competitors, says he would like to stop, "but I have to do it to stay in business." In rare instances, store executives are hoodwinked by their own buyers. One San Francisco department store found its buyer offering ladies' wool coats at "$14.99, formerly $19.95 to $25.95." It turned out that every other store regularly sold them at $14.99. The buyer's excuse: he wanted...