Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fishing of oysters," said Moscow Radio this week, "has been renewed in the Black Sea after an interval of 30 years." And where did Soviet bivalves stand in the eternal competition with the west? Before listeners had a chance to ask, Moscow proudly asserted: "The Black Sea oysters are superior in taste and nourishing qualities to French or British oysters...
General Robertson exhorted: "Make up your minds and stand together against these gentlemen who, with democracy on their lips and truncheons behind their backs, would filch your German freedom from you." He was applauded thunderously. But one Communist deputy stalked ostentatiously out of the meeting...
...bare floodlit stage of Nanking's National Assembly hall strode the Gimo, erect and austere in five-starred military khaki. He took his stand under a backdrop portrait of Sun Yat-sen while 2,500 Assembly delegates applauded.Then Chiang Kai-shek reported on the state of the nation...
...recent survey of those who could choose between competitive radio and television programs, said Langhoff, showed that 94% chose television. Said he: ". . . When these two stand up and slug it out there is little doubt . . . who is the coming champ." Langhoff warned sponsors against wearing out the television audience with tediously repeated commercials. Since television demands undivided attention of the viewer, said Langhoff, it also "induces fatigue at a much greater rate than . . . radio, and possibly encourages sly drooping of the eyelids during the duller portions of a program...
...when U.S. troops caught him, Gustav Krupp was too old (now 77) and too ill to stand trial. So his son Alfred and eleven fellow Krupp directors were hauled into Nürnberg court and charged with conspiring to wage aggressive war. Last week, after four months of testimony, a U.S. tribunal acquitted them of the charge.* The tribunal did not say why, but apparently it thought that businessmen could not be blamed for carrying out orders from political leaders. That did not mean that the Krupp officials would get off scot free. They still had to face trial...