Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of the offices of Rudé Právo a copy of TIME displayed, not prominently, but easily seen. It was the issue of December 29 with a picture of the Virgin and Child on the cover. When I asked the old woman in charge of the stand what sort of magazine it was, she winked at me and said it was an 'art' magazine. I asked if I might buy it. 'No,' she said, 'leave it for those who need...
...terrible time getting the necessary export permit, a document about ten pages long, smudged and finger-marked, dotted with tax stamps, official stamps, signatures and more signatures. I've forgotten a lot of the things I had to do, but the following stand out clearly...
...convention went on record in favor of the expressed political aim of Walter P. Reuther's UAW-CIO: "the formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party" to speak for labor-liberal forces. Chapter rank-and-file opinion on this stand will be solicited through a referendum the new national board has been instructed to conduct...
...letter delivered to more than 900 'Cliffedwellers yesterday, Joan Projansky '49, president of the 'Cliffe Student Government Association, explained the stand taken at a meeting Saturday of the Student Council, on the disputed first vote which ended last Monday...
...competent, considering the circumstances. The actors, almost to a man, indulge in speechifying, varying from tense dramatic whispers to semi-hysterical out-bursts. But such melodramatics seem to be inherent in the play. Similarly, co-directors Roy Erickson and Burt Kelsey have far too often permitted the actors to stand in awkward groups in the canter of the stage. If more imagination had been exerted, more realistic and fluid action could undoubtedly have been devised, but again the basic difficulty seems to lie in the play itself, which handicaps the director by substituting pseudo-eloquence for drama...