Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Righteousness Sake." The reason for Mindszenty's arrest was plain. The Communists wanted to demonstrate that no power remained in Hungary that could stand against them. The demonstration might not prove entirely successful. Two days after Mindszenty's arrest was made public, the Minister of the Interior summoned four of Hungary's Roman Catholic bishops who, jointly with their Primate, had staunchly held out against a government plan designed to make the Catholic clergy virtually employees of the state. The minister told the four holdouts, on pain of imprisonment, to resign. They flatly refused. Nevertheless, the Communist...
...always. Last week the Boston Herald heaved an editorial sigh for the wintry seashore where "the moving sands swirl up the dunes and out gullied chimney tops . . . This is the time of smoking dunes." On its good, grave editorial page, the New York Times took note of winter: "Stand by ocean's edge and you can see, feel, hear and smell the grey waters. This is the darkening interlude when the sea changes its hue and forecasts winter . . . snow." And the silk-hatted Wall Street Journal stuck a straw in its teeth and complained against the "tenderometer," a newfangled...
...shot downward to increase their falling rate and allow them to catch up with the curving surface of the earth. Shooting them backward would have a similar effect. If they were shot backward at a speed equal to the satellite's forward speed on its orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down on a target in either of these ways by giving it a powerful push from its nuclear rocket motor. But unless the operation were done with wondrous precision...
...workmens' coats and tools will disappear from the shelves of the new Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont, making room for volumes of verse and recordings of poetry readings. Harvard men will enjoy increased facilities for listening and a larger room than the old one in Widener. But as things stand now, Radcliffe girls will be unable to use it as they could use the old Wood-berry room. The loss of this privilege will affect not only poetry lovers, but girls in English O, who need to listen to these records as part of their course work...
...believe in the deferment of college students as such," Bender said, reiterating an earlier stand. He said he supports the plan of the American University Association under which no one under 22 would be deferred, and those over 22 would escape the draft only if their work or study is essential to the national welfare...