Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey stampede was with another candidate. Who? Taft was willing to compromise-on Taft. Vandenberg's Sigler was willing to compromise-on Vandenberg. Stassen wanted-Stassen. Earlier, Stassen had been willing to throw his strength to Vandenberg. But now the coalition strategy was for each man to stand firm. Each maintained that he could never hold certain states pledged to him if he threw his support to some other man. What about Warren? Said Duff, who was living in a suite at the Hotel Warwick across from Warren: "The governor of California seems to be rooted in concrete...
...Nationalists ticked off some of his possible alternatives. He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow. Or he might plunge toward Suchow, bastion of the Nanking-Shanghai defense area. Or he could drive down to Hankow. He might even decide to stand and fight...
...Administration, which had repeatedly asked for much milder stand-by powers only to be ignored by the Republican Congress, was wholly unprepared for the sweeping powers concealed in the draft act. So far there is no need for them. Except in the aircraft industry, defense orders are generally small. For the first half of this year, military needs in steel totaled only 670.000 tons, about 1% of total U.S. production...
...thing about the fine crop was that the stalks were stunted; no man could stand waist-deep in most Oklahoma wheatfields. But the heads of the wheat were astonishingly fat. Many had what appeared to be double heads. When he first picked some samples, the Oklahoma Experiment Station's Dr. A. M. Schlehuber, who has done wheat research for 17 years, thought that he had found a new variety. But as the telescope-like heads turned up on one variety after another, he discarded his theory, confessed: "I don't know...
...decide which facts to avoid uncovering-or how to tell in advance what good or what evil a new discovery may lead to. But he does suggest a general attitude that may be more high-minded than practical: "To prove that they are not mercenaries . . . they might take a stand against the continuation of military research. They might urge their fellow technicians to stop making more bombs. They might indeed stop supporting war, either directly or indirectly . . . The people want our scientists to do more than damn the use of yesterday's weapons. They want them to stop making...