Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Great Britain took a stand on Far Eastern policy as forceful as that of the outspoken U. S. In a long, sharp note, which greatly resembled Secretary of State Cordell Hull's New Year's demands on Japan, Britain plainly showed that "appeasement" does not extend to the Orient...
Meanwhile a crowd was gathering to watch the spectacle, which was enhanced by the addition of an anonymous woman who seemed to be even better trained than the dog. Assuming a stand with her hands on her hips she equally matched the pointer immobility. The tension became intense as the two vied for honors to determine who could last the longest. Finally a humane student, probably a Student Union member, fearing both would drop from exhaustion, let out a high pitched shriek which called the squirrel's attention to the matter. The rodent scampered up the nearest tree, the hypnotic...
From a junior-high-school American history: ". . . The Japanese army . . . by 1937 was in full control and the Japanese people were ruled by what was really a military dictatorship. . . . At Shanghai the Chinese held back the invader for months in a magnificent stand. Japanese air fleets dropped bombs on Chinese cities and killed thousands of unarmed people. The League of Nations and the United States protested against such terrorism...
...minute detail, almost every form of U. S. currency from 1776 to 1886. Old Mr. Preston would never let it go, even when the late John F. Dodge, one of the original Dodge Brothers, offered him $26,000 for it. The story is that Mr. Dodge used to "stand for hours" looking at it in Churchill...
...They must justify their stand, or confess ignorance of what's been going on," he said last night. "If they do the latter, I'll ask them to withdraw gracefully from the contest. As a matter of fact, I expect either to be completely ignored or subjected to a bitter personal attack...