Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of his colleagues to current international developments. He said: "In the inner circles of our Government it is no longer a question of whether or not we are on the eve of a world war. The question we would like answered is-will the U.S. make its stand on the Elbe or the Pyrenees...
...decision followed hard on the heels of the failure of an attempted merger of University theater organization and was described by HTW leaders as their "reply to the HDC stand" on the proposal...
...path of such an easy road to relief stands an almost immovable roadblock-the seven Housemasters. For these gentlemen, jealous of the sanctity of their several dining halls, last year threw up their collective hands in dismay at the thought of admitting a mere 23 outsiders apiece to such sacred precincts. Now the prospect of more than twice that number of invaders would be doubly hard for the Housemasters to swallow. And until these men relax a little the unhoused upperclassman can but stand and wait...
...thing that neither time nor politics has changed is Massachusetts' official stand on the 1927 execution of famed Radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Ten years ago Democratic Governor Charles F. Hurley curtly rejected the offer of a bronze bas-relief, designed by the late mountain-sculpturing Gutzon Borglum, as a memorial to "the good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler." Last week Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford just as firmly turned it down again. This time the committee that offered it to the state was headed by Harvard Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger...
...with a Bang. Human bodies can stand this alarming torment. But now comes the problem of getting out of the cockpit. "Climb out and jump?" Baldwin asks. "Try it in a plane making 600 miles an hour. . . . You can't move; the wind plasters you into your seat. ... So what...