Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clerical and 385 lay delegates elected him Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of California-slated to succeed Diocesan Bishop Karl Morgan Block when he retires next December. It took six ballots to do it. In Pike's favor were his age (44), moderate Low-Churchmanship and vigorous stand-taking as dean of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Against him were his ex-Roman Catholicism, the annulment of his first marriage and the same vigorous stand-taking...
Lost Battle. Last week a retired army officer named Marcel Doher was up for his fourth and last stand on the show. His brawny crutch, France's crack 400-meter relay team, waited on a track nearby. When Doher failed to identify the French priest (Abbe Henriot) who in 1815 became a close friend and horseback-riding crony of Napoleon, the scene shifted to Brawn. The team matched its former record of 45 seconds flat, giving Brain another go at Napoleon, but Doher missed again, and by this time the relay boys were tired. Twice the baton was dropped...
...game in the indoor courts behind the bar, or to drink a poncino (coffee laced with brandy) and play long, silent games of pinochle. But now and then the pinochle stops in mid-meld, and the bocce bowlers push through the swinging door into the bar to stand watching the small stage. Occasionally, as a mark of highest respect, the old men take off their hats...
...IMPORTS stand chance of being cut further by Government under "voluntary" plan. Commerce Department is worrying over the "increasingly serious" inventory situation caused by drop in domestic demand, which is bringing price cuts in fuel oil. One big problem: the Government itself has increased imports to 40,000 barrels of oil a day, mainly for jets, and some oilmen want it stopped...
...Slowdowns, forcing of overtime, spread-work tactics, stand-by crews and featherbedding practices...