Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many who had grown tired of Regent Tshekedi's high-handed enlightenment (once the regent burned down the huts of tribesmen who defied tribal rulings). On the kgotla's sixth day young Seretse brought the issue to a head. He leaped up with a challenge: "All those stand up who will not accept my wife!" Only 40 rose. Seretse shouted: "Who wants me for chief with my white wife, whom I refuse to give up?" Nearly 6,000 tribesmen responded with a thunderous standing...
...leader, Giorgio Almirante, small-time journalist and propagandist formerly in Mussolini's service, who, after the Duce's fall, made a living as a messenger boy and traveling salesman. A ferret-like little man, he stood behind the microphone while the delegates cheered. Said he: "I stand at attention before the legion of sorrow." He continued: "They say we are sentimentalists, that we long for a past which died with one man. But we are like the apostles who gained their faith through the martyrdom of Christ...
...London luncheon in her honor, Marlene Dietrich forgot that one does not smoke in a formal dining room until the King has been toasted. Between courses, she puffed on a green cigarette holder while the traditional uniformed toastmaster stared in horror. When he could stand it no longer, he banged his gavel close to Marlene's fingers, called for the toast, then roared pointedly: "Ladies & Gentlemen, you may now smoke!" Marlene spluttered, reddened, hid her head and finally apologized...
...still on call. "We're more laugh manufacturers than comedians," says Ole Olsen, 56. "Our gags are kind of living cartoons with spoken captions. We operate on the theory that people want fun, fun and more fun. Mister, you can't stand still. Even when we make mistakes we make them enthusiastically...
...silver-maned, bush-mustached old lion of a man had barely stepped out on the promenade deck when the New York press was upon him. "O.K., Dr. Schweitzer!" shouted the photographers. "Stand over there . . . now look this way-this way . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer, wave will-ya-with the hand, see? ... O.K., let's make him walk down the deck . . . Hey, Mr. Schweitzer...