Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Legs. Harry Truman had a four-legged program to stand on. Three of the legs were not new, but were doweled in more securely...
...Cold. The President, in overcoat and silk hat, was sustained by a concealed, hip-high support, against which he leaned while still appearing to stand. He sipped coffee often-though he usually avoids the stuff-toasted his feet at a small electric heater installed on the floor. "It got so hot I had to pour one of those paper cups full of coffee on it to put out the fire," Truman said later...
Said new Chairman Dibelius: "The Church in the east is already firmly united in its stand. Now that the Protestant Church of all Germany has joined with us, we can carry on the fight with renewed determination...
Four for Four. This week, with every gilded chassis and every cutaway transmission in place, G.M.'s President Charles Erwin Wilson and his four executive vice presidents would stand atop a marble staircase at the Waldorf to greet their guests and show their wares, on which they had spent a round $150 million for retooling. All of G.M.'s cars showed a drastic change either inside or out. They were so low and rakish that a small man could look over the top. They had wider seats (average front seat width: 62 inches), little change in wheelbases...
Dreiser wrote out of a body of experience more highly charged than that of any American novelist of his time, and the triumph of his career was that he was able to stand off from the world in which Sister Carrie lived, while still remaining a part of it. His comprehension of its dullness and its misery never destroyed his sense of human kinship with the people to whom it was the norm of life...