Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back. At the State Department the lights burned late all last week. On the heels of Jan Masaryk's suicide in Czechoslovakia (TIME, March 22) had come urgent requests for help from Finland. Norway soon followed. What was the U.S. prepared to do if either took a firm stand against Russia? Then Ambassador Bedell Smith cabled from Moscow: Could not Congress be made to realize the imperative need for some action which the Russians would understand? Smith urged a soldier's solution: immediate enaction of U.M.T...
...Neighbors. Meanwhile, Neighbor Guatemala took its stand behind the partisans of right-wing Editor Otilio Ulate, whose election had been annulled by Costa Rica's Congress. The rebels' commandeered TACA DC-35 made 19 trips to Guatemala for guns and ammunition. Led by a M.I.T.-trained planter [named] Jose Figueres, the Ulatistas fought so well that the government had to ask for more help...
...Here We Stand." On May 19, 303 A.D., in the Algerian city of Cirta (now Constantine), one Munatus Felix, high priest of the emperor, personally led a raid on a Christian service. He took with him a stenographer, whose report, taken in shorthand, sounds disconcertingly familiar to modern ears...
...subdeacon brought only one large book, explaining that the lectors kept the rest. Felix . . . said to them: "Identify the lectors." They said: "We do not know where they are." Felix said to them: ". . . Tell us their names." [The sub-deacons'] said: "We are not informers. Here we stand. Command us to be executed." Felix said: "Put them under arrest...
Deconversion of the Houses as College enrollment drops off will aggravate the problem of financing the House system, the committee pointed out. The University's stand that the Houses must pay their own way and contribute $100,000 annually to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences may in the future "make the cost of living in them prohibitive to some and may cause hardship to others...