Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer. He lounged in a red leather swivel chair, made a business of taking notes, glowered at Federal Judge Harold Medina, scowled at the back of the neck of U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, stared at the Government witnesses, two FBI agents, who took the stand to add their testimony to the mounting evidence...
This was the military headquarters of Western Europe. Its head man, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, was the commander in chief of the military forces of the five West European nations who (in the Brussels pact last year) had decided to stand together against aggression. It would in all likelihood serve as the nucleus of the GHQ of the North Atlantic nations' joint forces...
...North Atlantic Treaty had given the democracies a new sense of unity, and implicit assurance that the U.S. meant to go to war if the Red army tried to invade Western Europe; but the treaty, by the very fact that it also committed Western Europe to stand against aggression, had thrown into sharp and shocking relief
...Schulman, a friendly fellow who is never stingy with a pickle, each day serves up sandwiches to hundreds of satisfied customers, gauges their opinions on what passes in the great world by the chance-remarks they make between bites. Sam has no doubt where most of them stand. "Everybody here," he says firmly, "believes in the Atlantic pact...
...Graphotype has a standard typewriter keyboard, and letters can be punched directly onto a metal plate heavy enough to stand up under the pressure of the stereotype machine that makes the "mats" or molds for the lead plates for the presses. This saves time by eliminating photoengraving used by Vari-Type...