Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm, Governor Thomas E. Dewey conferred with Harold Stassen, talked daily with Foreign Adviser Dulles, who had been thoroughly briefed by George Marshall. General Dwight Eisenhower accepted an urgent invitation to come up for a talk. At a joint press conference, Eisenhower declared: "We agreed that our country must stand with absolute firmness in Berlin...
...most formidable hazards of the whole journey looms at the banks of the wide Taling River. Here the Communist line ends. On the river's opposite shore Nationalists stand guard. Whoever tries to wade, swim or boat across will be shot. This is a precaution against possible over-water attack by disguised Communists. The only unmolested transit is by way of the blasted railway bridge, a fearful half mile catwalk of twisted girders...
...baseball history, there had never been such a roar from the bleachers. It drowned out the news that Ben Chapman, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, had been fired the same day. Loyal Giant rooters vowed never to set foot in the Polo Grounds again. In Brooklyn, there were stand-up-&-fight arguments in Flatbush bars. Breezy Leo Durocher, once referred to as a "moral bankrupt" by a baseball club owner (out of print, he has been called worse names), was not the kind of person who invited neutrality...
...keep him out of the lineup for 60 days. Outfielder Tommy Holmes put zing into the batting order. Southworth didn't seem to be worried about Durocher's new Giants, or Shotton's new Dodgers-only about his old alma mater, the St. Louis Cardinals, "who stand out above us all. Wow, that's a beautiful ball team...
...Lots of museums buy pictures they don't really like. People can stand at an exhibition like this and argue all night on whether museum people are dodoes and filling their places with tommyrot . . . But museums don't buy pictures to live with. They buy pictures in the same way a zoo buys an elephant or a lion. They buy them for people to see. Who would want to live with an elephant...