Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galilee and tried to cut the Arab supply road into Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field. Said Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "We stand on the eve of the Jewish State . . . heartened by the victories of our army . . . We have just begun to buckle on the sword...
Communist Labor Boss Giuseppe di Vittorio publicly admitted his distress that Italian Reds had been obliged to attack the Marshall Plan. He said he would ask the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions to let workers in each country decide for themselves what stand to take on U.S. aid. "When someone wants to help you," he said, "it is ridiculous to slap him in the face...
Senators showed little interest in Greber's heavily accented notions, never asked a question. Next fall, when the full Greber report will be ready, they would probably put some of the questions Ottawans are already asking: 1) how much will it cost? 2) how will it stand up to an atom bomb...
Henry Kaiser got his licks in first. On the stand, he pictured himself as a trusting babe in the financial woods, led astray by Eaton and his Otis & Co. Kaiser testified that on the day before the new issue was to be floated (Feb. 3), Otis & Co. told him that K-F's stock should be "stabilized." Kaiser did not know what that meant. The underwriters, he said, explained: to keep the Curb price of the old stock steady, K-F ought to peg it by buying at a fixed price...
They also score who only stand and wait, discovered Winthrop's baseball aggregation yesterday, as they gracefully accepted six Adams walks in the sixth inning and strolled away with the ball game, 8 to 5. Court Wood hurled all the way for the winners, while a parade of four pitchers took the mound for the Gold Coasters...