Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forrestal had not raised his finger in the election campaign, and in fact had embarrassed the President politically by his stand on Palestine. Forrestal plugged aggressively in Cabinet sessions for his policies, sometimes on subjects which the President didn't think concerned him. It was no secret that Harry Truman, while recognizing his ability as a Cabinet officer, would like to get rid of him in good time-perhaps after the military budget was settled...
...only took 20 minutes to pick the jury for the trial of the first defendant, a 22-year-old tenant farmer named William ("Spud") Howell. Then Amy was put on the stand. She told how she and Big Duck and their baby and two cousins were on their way home in their car at night and how a gang of men "with white stuff on them" and "pistol guns" had stopped their car, and shot Robert Mallard dead...
...WHRV staff managed to stand up under the strain because different disc jockeys took turns spinning the records...
...conclusion, Fisher said, "had I felt guilty of any one charge levelled against me," he could not have kept up his sequence of wearying refutations. "I am convinced," he added, "that only a person who is certain of the justness of his position can stand up under 34 days of unjust and insincere attack. I have attempted to look upon this situation with a feeling of sympathy toward those men on the Council who hold their positions more important than integrity...
Aside from Mr. Whorf, the cast includes other notables such as Philip Bourneuf, Frances Reid, Polly Rowles, and Grace Coppin. The performances of Mr. Bourneuf and Miss Coppin seem to stand up best in the vacuum that follows Mr. Whorf's whirlwind...