Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud cheers and the great glee of right-wing leaders, James Carey and Walter Reuther, Murray added: "Let these apostles of Communism ... stand up and be counted like men." Feinglass and Henderson made squeaks of protest, defending their right to think as they pleased, attacking U.S. policy as giving aid to fascists and Nazis...
...Southgate, near London, a queue of expectant voters lining up for a local election wound up at a fish & chips stand instead of the polling booth. At Southampton, the Queen Elizabeth, free at last of the dockers' strike and loaded with 1,600 passengers itching to be on the go, was unable to cast her moorings. Parisians could see scarcely 30 yards ahead. In Berlin the airlift was halted for 15 hours, and in Denmark harbors, fishing smacks rolled blindly and helplessly at anchor. Even in London's deep Underground last week there were wispy traces...
...week and a half of warming up is about all an intramural athlete can stand before he starts whinnying for competition, so sometimes about the middle of next week, Intramural Director Dolph Samborski will send the House League, winter division, into action...
Newman himself is "surprised and amused" at all the furor, but he says, "I have no desire to change what I said before: that people in academic life have got to stand for freedom of though and freedom of investigation, or whatever we mean by academic institutions will fall to the ground...
Bender Explains Stand...