Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rear end of the plane, Sergeant Robert Lee Hodgkiss, 24, acting as safety man, heard the bell. The plane had only an altitude of about 400 feet, less than half the normal height for training jumps. But Hodgkiss sensed disaster, yelled: "Stand up, hook up, jump!" There was only time for Hodgkiss to see that all chutes were hooked to the static line. In seven seconds (half the usual minimum time) 36 men went out through the two doors. It was Hodgkiss' turn. He took a look. By this time the shuddering...
...been in desperate fear of Soviet aggression. They felt then that a North Atlantic Alliance could not come fast enough. They were willing to make the national sacrifices required by Western Union. There was a sweeping urgency, then, in the idea that the West would have to become strong, stand up to Stalin-that Stalin would respect strength and keep the peace...
...Four. Four major parties stand out in the Israel campaign...
...Freedom Movement," Israel's newest and potentially most dangerous party, led by Menachim Beigin, former commander of Irgun. Frankly jingoist, it demands a Jewish state including all of Palestine. Cried Beigin last week: "It is not a real peace while . . . the Arab legions stand on the Hill of the Holy Temple." His party violently denounces Ben-Gurion's peace efforts, attacks him as a seeker of power and prestige. "Have you heard?" runs one joke launched by Beigin's party: "Stalin is having delusions of grandeur. He walks up & down, beating his chest and saying...
Considine also wrote The Babe Ruth Story, helped Harold Stassen with Where I Stand, and Poland's ex-Premier Mikolajczyk with The Rape of Poland. He thinks ghosting "an honorable profession." Says he: "There are lots of guys with a story to tell, and there's nothing dishonorable in their not being able to tell it, or in someone helping them tell...