Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When stung, stand still and look: the antidote is always found with it, namely the leaf of the yellow dock. The cure is instant...
...nine hours, the hot words flew. In the end, the Murray resolution was adopted, 33 to 11. Then Phil Murray did something he had never done before. He made the left-wingers stand up and be counted. If the time ever came-and it might come before the 1948 campaign was over -when Phil Murray felt it necessary to boot these left-wingers out of the C.I.O., he would have a black & white record to use against the likes of Harry Bridges, the Transport Workers' Mike Quill and the United Electrical Workers' Al Fitzgerald...
...Britons Are Europeans." M.P.s knew, as did almost every Briton by this week, that their Ernie had indeed made or confirmed a historic change. A main tradition of British foreign policy had been to stand aloof from Europe, and to use Britain's weight to keep two opposing continental groups in a balance where British power could tip the scales. Bevin still believed that "no one nation should dominate Europe." But he added: "The old-fashioned conception of the balance of power should be discarded...
...small businessmen, small industrialists and tradespeople-will be thrown into the jaws of international big business. It is you, the little people, who are going to be bled white with-new taxes. . . . The bigger you are the less you pay. . . . But we, the Communist Party, will defend you and stand...
...less than the state minimum wage for women workers. A group of alumni, headed by Corliss Lamont if I recall correctly, took the initiative in publicizing the case and raised a fund to make restitution to the women concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have had better taste than to wash dirty linen in public. Let Harvard pay decent wages...