Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wind that Blew . . . The President, however, acted exactly as if he were setting out on a triumph. "If I felt any better," he told reporters at Washington's Union Station, "I couldn't stand it." He seemed to be certain that he was embarking on a sort of political Sheridan's Ride, and that his straggling troops would wheel, cheer, and rally behind him as he crossed the continent. As he began making the first of many off-the-cuff, rear-platform speeches, he announced again and again and again, that he was certain to be reelected...
...dealing with John L. Lewis, tried hard last week to avoid having to slap him down again. The "national tragedy" of another coal strike, said Judge Goldsborough, would rouse the country and Congress against Lewis, perhaps against both labor & management. Said he: "The people are not going to stand for having society disintegrated by movements of this kind." He invited John L.'s lawyers and those of the Southern Coal Producers Association, with whom Lewis has stubbornly refused to negotiate, to sit down in his chambers and "fuss in good faith." Nothing came...
...gallows, Brandt was unrepentant. He began a farewell speech. "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold. I served my fatherland as others before me . . ." He was still talking when the black hood dropped over his face...
...defeat of Cornell last week by Navy also throws certain previous conceptions far out the window. Washington and Cornell had seemed the only boats that might really stand a chance to dump the Crimson in the trials; now Navy, which finished a comfortable distance in arrears at the Regatta on May 8, looks like a tough opponent...
...Apaches as a tribe are yellow curs without any fighting ability," says Colonel Henry Fonda about five minutes after the RKO rooster quits yawping at the audience. The remainder of this courageous-last-stand-in-the-sage-brush saga sets out to disprove the good Colonel's thesis, a problem that involves numerous horsey charges, much sword waving, and about sixteen gallons of ketchup...