Word: stays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain closed the breakfast with a final order: "After 1 o'clock, or about 25 minutes thereafter, I don't give a damn what you do, but I want you to stay sober until then...
...wife is very serious concerning her religious beliefs. I too have my religious beliefs, but I think that it is best not to discuss them. I do not discuss my beliefs with the people upstairs or with my wife. They all go to church, but I stay home and say nothing...
...Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till 4 a.m. reading the classics. We like to play ball and go out on dates...
CHEVROLET had been radically changed in a big bid to stay out front in the lowest-price field. Lower and bigger, the Chevvy has larger windows, curving windshield, and new front-axle springing to make riding and steering easier. Also, for better riding, the rear seat has been moved ahead of the axle; for better visibility, the defroster keeps the entire windshield clear. Seats are wider, 60 inches in front and 58⅜ inches in the rear. Both the Fleetline (with the torpedo back) and the Styleline (with the square "bustle back") have Chevvy's 90 h.p. valve...
...late-model used cars were at least 25% under new car prices. That seemed some time off; despite the used-car slump, most G.M., Ford and Chrysler "new" used cars were still selling at over the list prices last week. Thus, most automakers thought that car prices would stay where they were for a long time. As for Wilson, who wanted prices to come down, too, he said: "I don't expect to see Chevrolet selling [again] for $500 or $600 in my lifetime." And C.E., like G.M., appears to be in the best of health...