Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took his place before a felt-covered reading stand, held arms high in the air to acknowledge cheers. When the demonstration subsided, he cut through formality to wish the Congress a happy new year on behalf of himself and Mrs. Eisenhower. In the gallery, Mamie took a bow. Still smiling and casual, the President turned to the rostrum behind him for timely birthday greetings to Vice President Nixon (45) and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (76). Then, the smiles giving way to solemnity, he turned to the business at hand: his sixth State of the Union message. When he concluded...
...such attempt, American power would be employed in stopping it, and, if necessary, would inflict upon the Soviet Union injury which the Moscow regime would not wish to suffer. The regime will not believe that this will happen if the U.S. and Western Europe are separated and stand alone...
...oxygen and kerosene, is designed to deliver a hydrogen warhead of megaton dimensions at a speed of about 14,000 m.p.h. to a target five miles in diameter at a 5,500-mile range. Atlas has 300,000 parts, is so thin-skinned that it must be pressurized to stand upright; its three engines, simultaneously ignited on the ground, can generate a total thrust of between 300,000 and 400,000 lbs., or roughly what it took the Soviets to put up Sputnik II; its snub nose cone is designed to withstand the intense heat of reentry into the earth...
Cambodia's ex-King Norodom Sihanouk has long been the most unpredictable political tumbler in Southeast Asia. At the Geneva Conference on Indo-China four years ago, Sihanouk's delegation won Western cheers with its courageous stand against Communist attempts to take Cambodia by negotiation. Later Sihanouk switched to "neutrality," made triumphant tours of Red China and the Soviet Union, at home coupled on-again-off-again praise for the Communists with equally erratic pats and cuffs for the West...
...wife and returned only to booze away his social security money at the local bars. Older brother Frank, acting head of the family, is a canny millionaire-in-the-making and a guilt-ridden lecher who loses successive mistresses to his wife's beagle-eyed sleuthing. Dave cannot stand the pompous Philistinism of Frank and his circle, gravitates toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler...