Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...View from Abroad Sir: Please convey to Angie Evans for her cou rageous stand for school integration [TIME, Sept. 22] the sincere congratulations of young nonwhite South Africans, who know only too well the suffering and humiliation of their brethren in the Southern states of America...
Dessie, Ethiopia Four Horsemen Sir: The identification of the first two Horse men in Revelations seems so obvious that I am amazed at ex-President Hoover's attempt [TIME, Sept. 29] to make the second Horse man stand for Revolution. On a red horse, with a great sword, he takes "peace from the earth"and makes men "kill one another...
...started ahead because Foss had lost friends by raising taxes; then rains brought a farm boom and Foss moved up; then an August drought came to McGovern's help. Result: McGovern appears to have a handy lead, rapping Ezra Benson while Republican Foss tries to avoid taking a stand one way or another on Benson. But Foss, World War II Marine Corps ace, has yet to warm up his Piper Super Cub and take off on the kind of whirlwind campaign that won him the governorship...
...satirist then declared that Americans have become members of "domesticated wolfpacks." Vidal continued, "We have lost the picture of solitary man standing up against other men and the facts of his creation." Not only unable to stand alone, Americans are also affected by "a tolerance so profound it is akin to terror," which stultifies the artist...
...Yardlings fought their way to the Boston ten in the fourth quarter but were unable to score again in the face of desperate Boston defense. Just before the end of the game B.C. pushed to the Crimson five with a flurry of pass plays, but a goal line stand by the tenacious Yardlings kept them from scoring again...