Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reclining. Wrote Pearson in his column: "When I was young I had a prof [whose] philosophy was: 'If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade.' The lemon Truman handed me I have squeezed so S.O.B. will stand for 'Servants of Brotherhood.' I am getting up an engraved 'Servants of Brotherhood' membership certificate, and maybe others will join me in enlisting folks who have sacrificed for their fellowmen...
...Stand Together. Dean Acheson continued his lecture in a radio speech which was cleared with Harry Truman and delivered with a Shakespearian actor's measured resonance. The U.N., he said, is "not working as effectively as we hoped because one of its members has attempted to prevent it from working...
...world wars in less than half a century. That experience has taught us that the control of Europe by a single aggressive, unfriendly power would constitute an intolerable threat to the national security of the United States . . . We've also learned that if the free nations do not stand together, they will fall one by one . . . We and the free nations of Europe are determined that history shall not repeat itself in that melancholy particular...
...intentions. Beyond polemics there would be further pressure -among other places, in Eastern Germany, where the Russian occupation authority last week pushed the formation of a Communist state; in the Far East, where the victorious Chinese Communists denounced the North Atlantic pact, and declared that they would stand solidly behind Moscow in any future...
...most treasured rituals is being shown off at the Opera House this week and next. An exhibition of matrons, clothes, and jewelry comparable to a museum display can be viewed daily between the acts of any of the operas which the Metropolitan is putting on during its current stand...