Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this produces a mixture. The piece is kept from the oratorio class precisely by its subject, which is too eventful and dramatically intense for an oratorio. One cannot help wishing for a physical reaction from the characters as the events of the tragedy unfold: but all they do is stand there and sing...
Next on the speaker's stand was Donald B. Snider, publisher of The Atlantic Monthly, who revealed that the magazine field is hard to crash right out of college because few magazines will take a risk on an apprentice when they can always pick up an experienced man from some other branch of the publishing business...
When State Senator Edward Rowe asked the measure's proponents to rise, over three-fourths of the audience leaped to its feet. Later, Rowe asked all medical students to stand, and almost the identical group arose...
...Newsmen refused to tell. Their position, as they stated it, is the standard practice of the press: "Violation of a confidence is the gravest ethical omission of which a newspaperman can stand accused." In some states the law would have protected them from such questioning. New York has no such law. So last week Clarke and Leonard were fined $100 each for contempt of court and clapped into jail to serve ten days. (They straightway began writing a series on prison life...
...annoyed at Professor Matthiessen's stand on Czechoslovakia that I feel it my duty to point out some facts to refute his distortions of the actual situation there...