Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, the same could have been said of Mr. Dewey if he had been elected . . . One of the reasons for Mr. Dewey's great silences was that he could not take a stand on any important question without alienating an important section of the so-called Republican Party...
...Economy. Stand-by power to clamp on price controls, allocation and rationing of scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...
...alas, this dilemma is compounded by the Cominform's economic boycott of Yugoslavia. In the exchange of goods, Tito disclosed, "a stand is taken toward Yugoslavia by the people's democracies which is worse than their stand toward capitalist countries...
...arrangements to bring his body back to Persia. The body was duly shipped via Cairo, where the Egyptians sidetracked it into a small local mosque. Ever since then Egyptians and Persians have been dickering over a suitable divorce settlement for Fawzia. "No settlement, no body" was Egypt's stand in the matter. Persia refused to submit to any such "disrespectful blackmail...
...voice of the bombardier came clearly to all hands at Bikini: "Skylight One, Skylight One. Two minutes before actual bomb release. Mark: two minutes . . . Adjust all goggles . . . Stand by ... Coming up ... Bomb away. Bomb away. Bomb away...