Word: stays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final afternoon of his mission to France, the President drove out of town, dropped in at his old NATO command at Rocquencourt, headed on through the green lanes of prospering France to stay overnight with De Gaulle at the country mansion of French Presidents, the centuries-old Chateau de Rambouillet. There Ike confided to De Gaulle the major conclusion of his mission to date. Said the President emphatically: he has seen a dramatic change for the better in France since De Gaulle has taken over -"a sense of purpose.'' And about De Gaulle, the President confided...
...Bonn, Ike's 23-hour stay was a political windfall for canny old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democratic Party. German Socialists dourly noted the President's airport remark that "in my country the name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free," complained that it was interference in German politics. The pollsters predicted that Adenauer's electoral strength would soar; it was bitter medicine for der Alte's enemies, who predicted his political downfall three months ago during the tussle with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood had a plan of action: she planted herself in a chair and announced she would stay right there until the paycheck was returned...
Raucous Jungle. The natural habitat of the Riviera male and female is either a hillside villa, a gleaming yacht or a huge hotel. Who could be a snob and not stay at the Carlton in Cannes? One guest kept three Chihuahuas on leash, another rushed in and out with a live leopard in his arms, and neither attracted much attention. Monte Carlo's sprawling Hotel de Paris had its rooms filled with idle maharajas, well-to-do Americans, lost Frenchmen. Nice's Hôtel Negresco welcomed financiers who kept the switchboard busy with their calls to brokers...
...starts out safely enough, tells what "bugs" him, what's "a gasser," who's "kooky" and "all that jazz." But in no time at all, the gassers have become "marvy," the jazz is "jive," and people start "yacking away." An echo from the past informs everyone to "stay loose." Another, from the Dark Ages, adds...