Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above the Storm. As a party spokesman, Warren early took his stand with the progressive Republicans-the Deweys, the Stassens and the Vandenbergs, against the Old Guard-the Tabers, the Hallecks, the Martins and the Tafts. He came out strongly for U.N., for the full Marshall Plan appropriations, for universal military training. He has always been an ardent exponent of public power and reclamation projects for the West, of a permanent FEPC, of government assistance for private housing...
...Little Netherlands." This year he did not bother to do much campaigning. His opponent, Gerald R. Ford Jr., 35, did. A Grand Rapids lawyer and onetime University of Michigan football star, Ford had hundreds of volunteers pushing doorbells for him, time & again dared Jonkman to debate his foreign-policy stand. Jonkman refused. Back-slapping "Jerry" Ford's margin: nearly...
...CONSECRATION : "You simply stand there and record a piece of history. In recording that piece of history, it becomes necessary to recite some words our Lord used; and so ... you do what you came there to do; or rather, you don't do it, you suddenly pull yourself together and realize that our Lord's words, even relaid on such lips as yours, have done...
...luckless person who complains that "everything happens to me" may be stating a scientific fact. Many victims of crime practically ask for it: they stand in the path of the crime and "tempt" the criminal. So said a noted criminologist last week. This theory is not new to science, but it was advanced with new force by Dr. Hans von Hentig in a new book, The Criminal and His Victim (Yale University Press...
...full blast. Nevertheless, he has been treading hard on Plymouth's heels. At this time last year, Plymouth's lead over Buick in new car registrations was 43,130; last week it was only 37,308. As Red Curtice says: "In this business you can't stand still...