Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punctuated by Chairman Thomas' gavel and boos from the audience, Witness Lawson was asked four times whether he was or ever had been a Communist Party member. Four times Lawson challenged the committee's right to ask, and refused to answer. When Lawson was ordered from the stand (and contempt proceedings against him started), a committee investigator produced copies of Communist registration cards for 1944. Number 47275, he said, was in the name of John Howard Lawson...
...M.P.s there would be 50 "pavement tickets" distributed by ballot, permitting a few lucky members to stand outside New Palace Yard, but John Donnelly, a sergeant major of the Royal Artillery, was assured of a seat in the Abbey to represent his regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, of which Elizabeth is colonel-in-chief...
...Government, bent on taking a census of Iraq's 3,500,000 (estimated) people, bethought itself of the surging throngs in the bazaars and narrow lanes of Old Baghdad. If noses were to be counted, the nose-bearers would have to stand still. So last week the Government ordered every one (including Government officials other than census-takers) to stay home on census days...
...hammers against the presses, later smashed up the editorial offices. Though the press room is only about 300 yards from Rio's central police station, the wreckers had the place to themselves for two hours. When a squad of military police showed up, the cops did nothing but stand and watch...
...this prestige. The only remaining competitor in the Atlantic's field is 97-year-old Harper's, and the Atlantic is now ahead of it in circulation. Weeks wishes there were more competitors. Old trees, he likes to say, are always healthier when they stand together...