Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ringing as the clang of a plowshare on granite. When Leader Kline rose up to speak, in the gilt-&-crystal ballroom of Chicago's Stevens hotel, the 3,500 listeners burst into a roaring cheer: "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everybody for the Farm Bureau stand up and holler-Yeah!" They cheered again when he lambasted Charlie Brannan's plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they're simply dishonest." The whole plan would work out, cried Kline, to the disadvantage...
...smooth, deep-voiced Negro, Johnson settled back on the witness stand and be gan to tell a federal jury in San Francisco how he had heard Bridges address a Communist National Committee meeting in 1936, how he recalled voting to "re-elect" Bridges to the national committee two years later under the alias of "Rossi." Attempting to discredit the testimony, Defense Attorney James M. MacInnis got the witness to admit he had never seen Harry Bridges at a national committee meeting after...
...point Crouch told of taking a trip with a Communist named Harvey. "Well," joked Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, "maybe it was Harry Bridges you were riding with. Stand up Harry-let him have a good look at you." Harry Bridges slouched amiably to his feet. "No," said Crouch, "he was heavier built...
...Lake Success angry members of the U.N. Trusteeship Council, which was supposed to establish the international regime over Jerusalem, called for a strong stand against Israel's truculence. Ben-Gurion's government meanwhile was carrying on independent negotiations with Jordan's cunning King Abdullah, whose Arab Legionnaires patrolled Jerusalem's Old City, a stone's throw from the blue & white flag flying over Ben-Gurion's headquarters in the Eden Hotel...
Gradually, the reforms born of Nationalist China's last desperate stand were showing signs of maturity. From Formosa's verdant plains and lushly terraced mountains, farmers had reaped their biggest harvest since the war. Lightning raids by government police were keeping currency black-marketeers in check...