Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reach of disapproving Republicans at the state convention and the primary election, but accessible to Democrats of a mind to stop Watkins by stepping across the party boundary at primary time to vote for Watkins' competition. Both parties, said Lee impartially in announcing his independent candidacy, "stand for and support the same policy of high tax, waste and giveaway programs...
...dominance, he has alienated far more than the fanatical Nasser lovers. Last week ex-Foreign Ministry Secretary Fuad Ammoun, a Christian, claimed that six of Lebanon's eight political parties, all the religious leaders, all the former Presidents, Premiers, Foreign Ministers and Speakers of Parliament have taken a stand against the Chamoun regime. Anger at Chamoun is the only single force that unites the divided rebel leadership, much of which is tribal and local and asserts its authority now largely because the government does not or cannot. Many leaders of the Moslem Arabs themselves are politicians used to playing...
Owners are bitter at the stars who made their reputations in clubs and are now biting the hands that fed them. As things stand, the expensive talent gravitates to a few favorite spots in Florida and Las Vegas. So where does the poor boniface put his coin these days? The only blue chips, according to Variety, are the little intimate places and a couple of hotel and club plusheries in each of the really hub metropoli...
...grain of truth in this story may be the tribesmen in the southern Sudan and elsewhere who still stand on one foot with the other foot held flat against the shin...
...addition, he feels, the military structure of the Army could stand "a little more democracy." Said Kitching: "In the old days, the individual in the Army was of no account. He was told to go here or there, and he did; but now we must take some notice of a soldier's wishes...