Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Policymaker Bob Taft, with his eye on pledges of economy, wanted to cut about $200 million out of the bill. Candidate Taft, admitting that his stand was "unwise politically," pleaded for Congress to go slow on public spending at a time when foreign aid and military commitments were making heavy demands on the Treasury and the nation's economy. One Democrat-Virginia's Harry Byrd-joined him, warned of deficits and of "an increase in taxes which will shake the private-enterprise system to its very foundations." Kansas' Republican Clyde Reed called the bill "an outrageous...
...amplifiers blared the Entry of the Gladiators and down the aisle strode James (George's valet) in morning coat, Kelly green vest and tie. He took a spray gun from a silver tray and began spraying the ring (George says that he just can't stand germs). The music stopped and a transcribed voice boomed excitedly: "Gorgeous George...
...Nazis during the occupation. When they fled, the 1,000 "tainted" publications were seized and their sullied titles banned. Today no Paris paper may bear the name of Le Matin, Le Petit Parisien, Le Temps, L'Oeuvre or Paris-Soir, among others. Some 300 publishers have still to stand trial...
...writing "all my anxiety entirely out of me" and by jotting down whatever transient impression or narrative fragment entered his mind, Kafka hoped to achieve an emotional catharsis. In an early entry, he said of his writing that "my doubts stand in a circle around every word." He might have added-around every deed. Kafka was a man impaled on the spears of scruple: he could not be satisfied with the approximations of truth most men accept, but had to burrow into them and try to redefine them...
Foot & Mouth. In Ottawa, Parliamentary Law Clerk Paul M. Ollivier proposed that M.P.s be required to stand on one foot while speaking...