Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stand-by rationing and price control...
...dozen cotton choppers on an East Texas farm dropped their hoes and hightailed it for the piney woods. One of those crazy flying machines that stand still in the air was right on top of them. But they stopped dead when the thing yelled at them: "Hello, down there. This is Lyndon Johnson, candidate for the U.S. Senate, dropping in to say good morning...
Receiving reporters in a gay silk print dress, Margaret Truman hedged on politics (she was "flattered" at the suggestion that she run for Vice President), took a firm stand on a personal issue: "Anybody that calls me 'Maggie' will never get a date. I hate that name...
...animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies and Idriss, still playing in the band on the Joan Davis show, stand to make $10,000 apiece from...
Said jobless Tom Buchanan: "To Mrs. Roosevelt and to all whose advice has been, 'stand up and be counted,' I now reply that I am on my feet. It is time for them to stand up and be counted, too." When Washington Guildsmen stood up last week, the preliminary count was 251 to 163 in favor of doing nothing for Communist Buchanan...