Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving at Butlin's Filey Camp on the Yorkshire coast last fortnight with his wife Mary, their two children and some 400 other workers from the Midland's woolen-weaving city of Bradford, Alf Murgatroyd had little time to stand and wonder what next. Bustling all around him on the long, flat station platform was a group of bright young girls and athletic men in red blazers. Bursting with good cheer, they whisked Alf and his friends over green fields to a cluster of glass-sided buildings topped by a huge white tower bearing the word "Butlin...
Into Battle. Theologian Brunner lost no time in challenging this position. In an open letter to Earth in the same publication he said that he was unable to understand why Earth, one of the first and most uncompromising opponents of Naziism, has not taken a similar stand against Communism-and long since. Is not Communism totalitarianism? Brunner asked. And is not totalitarianism "in principle" unrighteous and inhuman? Must not Christians join in this battle? To remain silent is to deny a fundamental Christian principle, which Christians must never...
...Stalin's regimes may both be totalitarian. But what is important is the special temptation Hitlerism was to the church in prewar days, when many prominent people were extremely friendly to the Nazis. Thus, says Earth, it was necessary for the church to take an uncompromising stand against Hitler from the very beginning...
...paper yanked out its pictures of the car, the strangler's necktie and revolver. Out came his quotes; in went an editor's note that what the man said was "barred under Rule 904 of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore." The Evening Sun let its story stand, and last week "waited to see whether it would be cited for contempt of court...
Said a New York buyer: "Wonderful for a queen or a movie star who wants to stand at the head of the stairs and be photographed, but quite useless to any woman who wants to do anything." Dior admitted that he expected to make very little on these styles (at a top price of around $1,000 each). But he had other plans...