Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many commentators on the political scene are taking the stand that the G.O.P. needs to "liberalize" . . . I demur. What the country really needs is . . . an honest-to-goodness opposition party...
...Reader Helscher stand corrected. Humphrey was 4-F (for double hernia); he was rejected for enlistment in the Navy in 1944, by Selective Service...
...Father, let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen . . . Give us the courage . . . to stand for something, lest we fall for anything . . . Amen...
...Confessing that she beat her sick seven-month-old son to death because she "couldn't stand his crying," pudgy Georgette Brucks, 21, was sentenced to from one to ten years in jail. She offered to submit to sterilization if granted probation. Los Angeles' Judge Thomas Ambrose so ordered it. Georgette also agreed to have one surviving child, and one yet unborn, put up for adoption...
...sisters, a brother, his cobbler father. When the Germans came, Abraham fled to Russia. The Germans caught up with him again at Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell too soon to hear the staccato of the German machine guns. When he awoke it was dark and rainy, the ditch was filled with bodies. Abraham lay still. Later he crawled on hands...