Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Push reasonable legislation to redevelop economically impaired areas, undertake needed tax reforms, stand for sound fiscal management...
...rent. In construction is a twelve-story building for the rich (monthly rent: up to $350), which will have a roof garden, Turkish baths, a nightclub, bowling alley and a parking lot for 250 automobiles. For the middle class there are the geta-baki ("houses wearing wooden shoes"), which stand on stilts and have shops underneath. But whether for the rich or the poor, each apartment house has become not only a place to live, but also a new way of life...
Foreign Policy: A month ago there were widespread fears that the Republican Administration was leading the U.S. into war over a hunk of rock named Quemoy. As of last week the Administration's Far Eastern stand was by no means considered a political success, but the on-again-off-again cease-fire had brought a general easing of tension...
...stand alone...
...months old, Teobaldo deserted his family, and Giuseppina returned with the baby to her family's home in Langhirano, near Parma, where Grandfather was postmaster and owner of a general store. In the pale blue, two-story masonry house with the post office, a barbershop and ice-cream stand on the ground floor, Renata grew up, surrounded by a dozen relatives...