Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Israeli representatives in Washington emerged sweating from a two-hour conference in the air-conditioned offices of Acting Secretary of State James E. Webb. The Israelis were smarting from a U.S. rebuke for their stand on the refugee question, but they were still adamant. Next day the Israeli embassy sharply announced that Ethridge had "misrepresented" Israel's stand on the Arab refugee question. Final peace in Palestine, it seemed, would have to wait until the neighbors were on speaking terms again...
...trap was sprung by hard-riding horsemen of Ma Pufang, the Moslem boss of China's Northwest. First, retreating Hu Tsung-nan made a stand some 75 miles from Sian. Then, swooping from the mountains in the Communist rear, Ma's cavalry, about 20,000 strong and led by Ma's 29-year-old son, Major General Ma Chi-yuan, took the Reds by surprise, cut them up, forced them into ragged retreat. Last week, Ma's cavalry were still carrying on the fight against four Communist armies in the vicinity of Sian. For awhile...
...controlled Corporation del Cobre which would control the production, price and distribution of all Chilean copper. In effect, U.S. companies would lose their firm hold over the world's biggest source of the metal outside U.S. borders. Chile was reluctant to take the move. But its determination to stand on its own economic feet, whether well-shod by U.S. dollars or not, was too strong to permit an alternative...
Fortnight ago, ruddy, moon-faced Professor Barrois came out, in the first of two articles for the biweekly Presbyterian Life, with some plainer talk. In the first installment, called "Where We Stand Together," he is as mild and tactful as ever. He concedes that "we Protestants are not at war with Rome. We do not believe, for instance, that Catholics are 'idolaters,' or that the Mass is 'for sale.' And Catholics do not regard us necessarily as religious anarchists who do not bother about the Ten Commandments . . . Catholics and Protestants both believe," he says...
...Gill was born into the poverty-pinched family of a nonconformist deacon. As a child he liked to draw locomotives, and later cathedrals, striving always for accuracy. Lettering appealed to him because "you don't draw an 'A' and then stand back and say: there, that gives you a good idea of an 'A' as seen through an autumn mist . . . Letters are things, not pictures of things." Moreover, letters, particularly when carved on tombstones, served a clear purpose, and they paid...