Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviets see it, the West German leader of the 1970s will be either Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, a Socialist, or Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, a conservative. The Soviets reckon that a relaxed policy toward West Germany would aid Brandt's cause, while a continued hard-line stand would surely enhance the possibility that Strauss might some day elbow aside Kurt Kiesinger as Chancellor...
...their second straight victory over the Soviets, and moved them into a tie with Russia and Sweden for first place. Because of the tie, the championship was decided by the total goals scored, and the title went to Russia. The technicality bothered few Czechoslovaks as they watched their team stand at attention while the measured strains of the Czechoslovak national anthem rang through the Stockholm stadium...
...first pitch came in tight. I jumped back and my helmet flew off. There was this tremendous ringing noise. I couldn't stand it. Just a loud shriek all over me. I was trying to find some place in my mouth where I could get air through, but I couldn't breathe. I kept saying to myself, "Oh, God, let me breathe." I didn't think about my future in baseball. I just wanted to stay alive...
...million, while profits reached $1,300,000. On the London market, its shares rose by 358% last year, making Clubman's Britain's second fastest growth stock (after Bolton Textile Mill Co., a firm that manufactures paper underpants). The joint holdings of Whitfield and Tanner stand close to $12 million...
...people inside University Hall first heard rumors about the bust at 3:40 a.m. For the next hour, people woke up and milled around the first floor, where they had earlier agreed to make their non-violent stand against the police. They sang radical songs, received wet pieces of linen and instructions for their use against tear gas, and the phone numbers of lawyers who had agreed to defend those arrested...