Word: grandstand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...road: when policy puts him under attack from the Tory, right, he can expect support from the CCF left-and vice versa. But the combined opposition is now strong enough to do some boat-rocking. No longer would the minority parties be prone to sit by, as grandstand critics, making noises solely for the record, taking little responsibility. With the Liberal Government's former whopping majority cut to a minimum, there would be closer scrutiny of legislation, more informed and useful debate. The Liberals would now have to mind their political knitting. Out would go the complacency that goes...
George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, who has mostly watched baseball from the grandstand since his days as the "King of Swat," planned to launch a fresh career as a wrestling referee with an April 4 match in Boston, said he would go on a crosscountry tour if the new job pans...
Like a baseball fan who has just seen his favorite team and then rushed to read his favorite correspondent's view of the game, so we with this Naval Task Force off Southern France waited for TIME. Unlike the fan, we shared your correspondent's grandstand seat, his secrets (the Navy plan of attack and the Army follow-up), and his close-up of the leaders and the players...
...officer. . . . Recently I had a new man assigned to me for communications duty and I insisted that he master the complicated plan that was being fitted together for a pending operation. He did what I thought was an excellent job. Came the operation, and we were there in the grandstand seats. At times we even got onto the playing field. It was impossible to get closer! Roberts lived in, around, about and through that operation. He observed it first hand...
...shillelagh rap from little Eire (pop. 3,000,000) gave the U.S. one more foreign-policy headache last week. To President Roosevelt's polite request that neutral Eire kick its German and Japanese diplomats out of their grandstand seats for the invasion, President Eamon de Valera returned a flat "No" (see p. 36). Would the U.S. now get tough as it had with neutral Spain, and join Britain in economic sanctions? Or would the President and the State Department, unable to prove a single case of Axis espionage in Eire, be content with having put themselves on record...