Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things stand now, the infield will probably line up with Crosby behind the plate and Mannino, Dunn, Cavanaugh, and Coulson--from left to right. The outfield--in the same order--is tentatively Howe, Moffie, and Caulfield...
Rich Heiress Fontaine, complete with satin pajamas and psychiatrist, decides that she can't stand her new husband's cough--after an hour or so of marriage. So she spends her nuptial night in the hotel room down the hall. The room happens to be inhabited by pilot Stewart, who plods through the "you take the bedroom and I'll sleep on the couch." situation and later takes the heroine "way from it all" in his westbound plane--together with the cigar-smoking carnival monkey, the cringing embezzler, a corpse-loaded coffin, and other less interesting cargo...
...they attempted to speak out 'for peace and liberty.'" I made no such remark. My speech at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace dwelt on the aspects of the American tradition most valuable for the world today and cited specifically Emerson's internationalism, Thoreau's determination to stand on principle in resistance to what he deemed an imperialistic war against Mexico, and Melville's and Whitman's conception of the heroic potentialities of the common...
...will not go back to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin-at least not for the present. This is not so much because of the difficulty of shipping art by the airlift as because the Army still holds the paintings "in trust for the German people." As matters now stand, Berlin is a poor place to lodge such a trust...
Watch the North Wind Rise is no great shakes either as a novel or a sociological essay. But it manages to stand up-and to stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...