Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale Harrison may flaunt his return to heavy cigarette smoking after a serious coronary attack at the age of 49-if he wishes-in his book Thank God for My Heart Attack . . . However, great harm may come from TIME's blithe presentation [May 23] of Harrison's stand to millions of readers, without inserting some hint of the possible dangers involved...
...Issue. Across the Hill, in a Senate committee room, Mississippi's rabble-rousing Senator James O. Eastland faced C. B. Baldwin, secretary of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party. "Beanie" Baldwin was there to protest an anti-Communist bill. Baldwin, who off the stand said he was no Communist, refused on the stand to answer whether he was one or not. Angry at Eastland's insistence, Baldwin shouted: "You've been fighting against Negro rights ever since you became a Senator...
Lieut. McCloy caught the eye of his commanding officer, General Guy Preston, a salty cavalryman who had fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee near the Cheyenne River, where in 1890 the Sioux made their last stand. McCloy went to France as Preston's operations officer in the 160th Field Artillery Brigade. Years later, Preston told another officer why he had chosen McCloy as staff aide. "One day at Fort Ethan Allen, I walked behind him after he had been riding. I could see blood all over his pants. I said to myself, any man who could keep riding...
...juniors were made to stand on their feet. The pace was swift, the competition was stern. Says a friend who has known McCloy ever since those days: "Jack learned not to depend on others. It is surprising how many men in Washington have never learned how to handle anything themselves, and depend on other people to shape up the work. The one thing McCloy has never had to do is to depend on somebody else to do his draft ing; he can do it better himself and he knows...
...Majesty's Guards were given a special ration of barley sugar, designed to carry the Guardsmen through the rigorous birthday ceremony (see cut), the first full-dress "Trooping the Color" to be held since 1939. Footguardsmen of the Welsh Guards donned scarlet tunics and towering bearskins, to stand at rigid attention. They were joined by plumed horsemen of the Household Cavalry. To take the salute, the King himself, not yet sufficiently recovered from his leg ailment to ride horseback, drove over from Buckingham Palace in an open carriage, closely followed by the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Elizabeth, sidesaddle...