Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circle for literally hours-hoping for clearance to land. In short, air travel, the great success symbol of 20th century man's conquest of space and time, is on the verge of becoming-like railways, highways, traffic and smog, a fit subject for bad jokes by stand-up comics. (Sample: "There really were three Wright brothers, but one is still stacked up over O'Hare...
...minor rejiggering. Pan Am lost a great-circle route to Tokyo from Seattle and Portland but kept a new run to Japan from New York. Nixon denied Northwest a great-circle route to Tokyo from California, but allowed its new central Pacific route to Japan through Hawaii to stand...
...Spanish Civil War and separated from her in World War II. She complained that he took too few baths-and besides, she had her own career as novelist and journalist to follow. Hemingway classified her with his mother, whom he condemned as "a domineering shrew." Baker appears to stand discreetly in awe of Mary Hemingway (called "Papa's Pocket Rubens" by her husband), who stood by him from...
Another reason for over-application is the college crowd. Jock made his stand known quite unambiguously in a newspaper last April. "It's those jokers from M.I.T. and Harvard that drive me nuts. You know, the ones with the funny hats who run for fraternity stunts," Jock proclaimed. He probably won't be too very pleased if and when he learns of the competition between the Crimson and the Yale Daily News...
...said that the group's only function is to take care of the technical details of running a meeting. He said that they did not split from Mem Church because of ideological differences. He added that they split solely because the Mem Church Group had taken a political stand and thus could not run a meeting impartially. "It was apparent someone had to do the job," he said...