Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choose white collar workers for typical readers? Our budget could only stand one magazine subscription, so TIME won out. As a whole, it is a fair grouping of all the things we want to know . . . But, good heavens...
Vice-Presidential Candidate Alben Barkley was the big attraction for Democratic Day. Illinois Democratic leaders hoped that Barkley would stand the farmers on their ears with a great speech-the way he had roused the convention at Philadelphia. But Barkley was a flop...
Brought back to the ruins of Los Angeles, Poole sees two women drawing water in a goatskin from a shallow well in front of the Philharmonic Auditorium. Near by stand the communal ovens. They are stoked with books brought by small boys from the remains of the Public Library. "In goes The Phenomenology of Spirit, out comes the corn bread...
...show what a wonderful Utopia awaits man. In Huxley's hand this form becomes a desperate, overworked and sometimes incoherent jeremiad directed against a destruction-bent, unheeding world. As a satirist, Huxley has neither Swift's passion nor Celine's gusto; he simply can't stand the world any more, not even enough to pillory...
...shown waving to friends). Donaldson's lawyer got a girl witness so mixed up during cross-examination that she began sobbing "I don't know" to questions she had already answered with assurance. Driver Donaldson's mind went completely blank when he finally reached the witness stand, and he wasn't playacting. Said the professor: "A perfect example of retrograde amnesia...