Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard-bitten General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had taken the witness stand before the tense audience in the House Armed Services Committee room. Infantryman Bradley began to read his statement, which he had handwritten without help from public-relations experts, in his quarters at Fort Myer...
...things stand, Lippmann seems to think the U.S. has the power to deter Soviet aggression, because the Russians believe that if the Red army marches appreciably beyond its present lines, the U.S. will go to war. But this will work only so long as the Russians believe that the U.S. does not plan to attack them in a preventive war, whether they march...
...trumpet, instead of the famous "Red" Ingle, Hollywood jazz fans saw a curly-haired youngster of 18-Ingle's son Don. At the traps, in place of "Ace" Estes, was Estes' skinny, long-nosed boy Gene, 18. They counted off the same way right around the stand. Last week, devoutly following in their fathers' solid-beat footsteps, the famous sons' five were the hottest band in Hollywood...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Although this department used some of its excess income in bailing out the library and HAA, it needs most of the remaining surplus to guard against possible ups-and-downs in the near future. Moreover, University policy is that each individual department should stand for itself and not serve as a crutch for others...
American influences, borne by the G.I.'s, have permeated the whole of Italy. The Rome police force travels about in a fleet of jeeps; chewing gum is in fashion; there is a coke stand on the roof of the cathedral in Milan. Coke even has a local competitor, a watery ersatz called "Presidento Cola," which comes in conical bottles...