Word: erecting
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...Became erect and held the pose because
...prize is Schneider & Cie., whose sales of $512 million last year came from its dominance of 40 companies with interests in mining, manufacturing, banking and real estate throughout Europe, Latin America, Canada and Australia. The leading figure in this family company is Liliane Schneider, who at 61 is tall, erect, smooth-skinned and almost as handsome as when she starred in such French film confections of the 1920s as The She-Goat with Golden Feet. Liliane married Heir Charles Schneider in 1931, started working at his side in 1942 and succeeded him as co-manager of Schneider after his death...
Although the Sherif had asserted that Ware, in the hasty trip to Camilla hospital, had been slumped over, Minter had him sitting up straight. When asked to demonstrate how Ware, from an erect position, could bite the Sheriff, Minter leaned stiffly to the left and with a quick jerk of his head took a chomp...
...deliberately write off the great industrial states of the North, that it write off the big cities, and that it direct its appeal primarily to the electoral votes of the South, plus the West and a scattering of other states. The transparent purpose behind this plan is to erect political power on the outlawed and immoral base of segregation, and to transform the Republican Party from a national party of all the people to a sectional party for some of the people...
During his recent trip to Europe, President Kennedy observed in a speech delivered in West Berlin that the United States had never found it necessary to erect walls to keep its citizens in. He was, unfortunately, mistaken. Our walls are not built of bricks and cement, and they are not topped with broken glass, but they are walls just the same...