Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirdly, the 40 & 8 has in operation at this time a nurses training program. If this is indicative of the type of society your article portrays, then I am happy to be a part of it. As for the 40 & 8's "lily-white stand," I have the utmost faith in and conviction of the elimination of this blot in our manuals...
Mandate. Before Khrushchev left, Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor David Lawrence reminded him at a dinner that both parties stand firmly behind President Eisenhower. From Khrushchev came a response that made it clear that he was growing alert to U.S. nuances. Said he: "I want to interpret your words [not as a threat but] as a mandate of your confidence and your love to the President, and for that I take heart . . . Our Soviet government has the support of the people. Before I left, the same thing was said to me: 'Khrushchev, go to America, strive for peace...
Without Trying. At a press conference, Stevenson reiterated his "no candidate" stand-with a notable escape clause. "Time and time and time again I have said that I am not a candidate. If you ask about a draft and things of that sort-these things I have not yet contemplated." After a call on Stevenson and Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson at the executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote...
...open-air market near Manchester last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, smiling in the hustings, took his stand alongside a gypsy fortuneteller's trailer, confidently told an audience of 300 tweedy housewives and white-aproned fruit vendors: "This country is better off today-better fed, better clothed, better housed-better off in every way than ever before in history." Before another knot of housewives in a shopping center north of London, Labor's leader, Hugh Gaitskell, demanded, "What's being done about spreading that prosperity among all of us?", went on to tout...
...lost his memory, and so was unfit to plead to the charge of shooting a London cop. Last week, after a procession of experts had offered conflicting medical opinion on whether Podola was, in fact, suffering from "hysterical amnesia," the jury finally decided that he was fit to stand trial...