Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacArthur stepped out from a cabin stood stiffly erect and began reading with all the mellifluous, sonorous qualities of his magnificent voice. The only sign of his emotion was the trembling of the hands in which he held his paper...
Wearing a simple khaki uniform, no decorations, Chiang Kai-shek sat com posed and erect before the microphone...
...minutes the Generalissimo was finished. Then, for a moment, the erect shoulders slumped, the facial muscles sagged, the eyes tired. It was a second of relaxation that epitomized eight years of elemental effort...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...
With his shaved head showing only grey fuzz, his scarred face pale, Joyce stood stiffly erect in the dock, murmured: "I have heard the charge and take cognizance of it." He was also cognizant that the penalty for treason is death. Joyce had been poorly paid by the Nazis for his treasonable broadcasts, was now penniless. Under the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act, he was certified as entitled to free defense counsel. Then he was whisked to Brixton Prison in a Black Maria. On arrival, he had said: "So this is Brixton." "Yes," snapped his guard, "not Belsen...