Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy's stand for law and order is refreshing. Why should law-abiding citizens be forced to accept what amounts to official collusion with violence and lawlessness ? This has become a tyranny of the minority, and both youngsters and adults who believe in the law are suffering...
...briefed the meeting. If the U.S. does not act on Chamoun's request now, said the Secretary of State, "our prestige is gone; nobody will take our word again-ever. If we get there first, there might not be Communist intervention." If the U.S. refused to take a stand now, he added, the free world would stand to lose not only the Middle East and nearly three-fourths of the free world's oil reserve, but Africa and even non-Communist Asia...
Another writer, in the humanities session with Mrs. Piper, is Martin Walser, German short-story author and novelist. German and American intellectuals are in the same boat, stated Walser, because they are not directly in the employ of their governments and stand apart from their people. "While the intellectual cannot agree with what goes on around him, it's not his business to be angry or propose ready remedies." An intellectual, Walser stated, "should be a diagnostician, not a surgeon...
...Shoot proved to be a hamlet in the middle of a swampy, oil-rich wooded area known as the "Big Thicket." Its 194 inhabitants claim that "if you stand around long enough, you'll get cut; if you try to run, you'll get shot." The city-slicker writers found Roy a quiet, soft-spoken schoolteacher and ex-Army lieutenant living in a modern cottage on the Harris farm. Roy told them he was part Indian (Cherokee) and "I want to prove that I am a fighter and not a myth." They all dutifully wrote that down...
...kicks he needed, the dope pushers showed another way. At the end, Pool lost his virility, his musical control, his desire to live. He was alone, even when the joint was crowded. And he lived just long enough to hear a young newcomer blow him off the stand...