Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bradley left no doubt that the Army would stand solidly behind the trimmed-down budget Harry Truman had sent to Congress. Though the Army had lost about $1 billion in the process, he said: ". . . I would much prefer to take some military risk rather than have to weather the dangers of an economic bust...
Suspicions that Mindszenty was drugged arise chiefly from the contradiction between his confession in court and his previous strong anti-Communist stand...
...arrows, charging horses, our side losing with spears going clear through guys in front of the camera; it'll be better than 'Fort Apache.''' Another voice: '''Fort Apache,' hell. 'Unconquered' will look like a scramble for peanuts compared to this." First voice: "Right! And through it all there'll stand Ingrid all in white, waving her men on with her flag and a different colored sunset behind her for each shot." Second voice again: "It'll be galorous, to coin a phrase. And considering' we ain't got no Indians...
With a fair amount of restraint for a mystery-comedy, The Lucky Stiff confines itself to only four murders. It could stand a few more laughs. Even its romance dwindles off when Lawyer Donlevy decides to ration the women in his life. He gives up Lamour, but holds on to both Client Rambeau (whose fees pay a lot of bills), and his long-suffering secretary (Claire Trevor) who tells him which bills must be paid...
McCormick took up the Crimsons stand and again to run the next lengths for the mile relay team, which lost to Yale. Al Ruby, Dave Hamblett, and Harvey Thayer filled the other slots for the Varsity...