Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revell said the Democratic and Republican parties both stand for the same principles. Admitting that the GOP had the election wrapped up, he insisted that "a vote for Thomas will not be wasted. It is certainly no more useless than a vote for Truman...
...Winter's coming and we won't have it said that we refused to stand by our Braves," said one Cabot Hall volunteer in answer to the offer made to the Indians by Smith's Gardner Hall. The girls there had announced their project Tuesday in the form of a congratulatory telegram which guaranteed "socks for all" if the Indians would send their sizes...
...intimates in effect that its modest goal would at least avoid the five year struggle for funds which preceded the building of Memorial Church. Out of that struggle, however, came a durable memorial which combines the functional and inspirational to the greatest possible degree. The current proposal does not stand comparison to the devotion which created Memorial Church in spite of discouragement and delay...
...whole cast of the Robert Mitchum dope case, troubles kept multiplying. Having failed to get the marijuana indictment dismissed, the droopy-eyed film star and two codefendants, all pleading "not guilty," would have to stand trial. Two days after her courtroom appearance, Dancer Vickie Evans, who would get a further hearing on her dismissal plea, was picked up in a 3:30 a.m. raid on a gambling joint. The charge: vagrancy. Hinting that she was being persecuted, Vickie cried: "I'm through with Hollywood. I want to go home to Philadelphia." Starlet Lila Leeds was being sued for return...
...compiling it, Assistant Professor Jacob Scher, helped by three Chicago Tribune staffers, took a firm stand against hackneyed journalese. Sample warning: "Regardless of the gravity of an accident, don't 'rush' an ambulance to the scene. Don't 'dispatch' one, either. Just 'send' one. Don't 'rush' the victims to a hospital. Just 'take' them...