Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans for Democratic Action had drafted a minority report. A.D.A.'s spokesman was Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., 37, mayor of Minneapolis, who has a fast and facile tongue, political courage, and is opposing Joe Ball for Senator in November. The A.D.A. amendment commended Harry Truman for "his courageous stand on the issue of civil rights," and in somewhat obscure words urged Congress, in effect, to repeal the poll tax, set up FEPC, make lynching a federal offense, and end segregation in the armed services...
Pants & Stomach. Yellow skullcaps with propellers on top began appearing on the heads of New York and Pennsylvania delegates. A Powers model, carrying a Truman-for-President sign, edged on to the floor in front of the speakers' stand, where she was ogled and photographed. But the delegates listened to the speeches. The hall had taken on a look of purpose...
Last week Germans agreed with Anthony Eden when he told them: "If ever there was a time to stand firm, it is this...
...would start arming Israel while Britain continued to arm theArabs. U.S. policy finally crystallized in a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for sanctions (i.e., punishment) against either side that refused or broke the truce. Britain supported the resolution. Against that united front, the warring parties did not dare to stand...
...measure of China's tragedy is not Shanghai's soaring inflation, nor the tide of battles lost & won. It is the horde of refugees streaming southward, 30,000,000 starving, diseased, despairing people. They stand for the breakdown of Chinese society under Communist hammer blows which caught China in the difficult and disturbing transition toward Western progress. The Communist attack has not only halted such progress; it is sweeping away the village, the family-all the ancient pillars of Chinese society which endured despite primitive economics and decadent politics. TIME China Correspondent Fred Gruin last week headed...