Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Izmir, took an inglorious stand against U.S. Air Force Sergeants McCuistion and King, lest the brutal and ill workings of status-of-forces agreements be exposed...
...effectively controlled an opposition Congress. The labor reform bill that passed both houses last week (see below) would have been a far weaker measure, all partisans admitted, but for the President's well-timed radio-and-television intervention. But his greatest battle was for fiscal stability, and his stand against free-handed spending last week withstood the nearly irresistible force of pork-barrel politics. Whipped. The clash: an all-out drive by House Speaker Sam Rayburn and his big Democratic majority to override the President's veto of the public-works appropriation bill, a $1.2 billion barrel full...
Despite a they-shall-not-pass stand by Rayburn. the House last week agreed to finance the highway program by adding 1? per gallon (Ike asked 1½?) to the federal motor-fuel excise...
...behind the industry. Said District Manager L. M. Spicer of Los Angeles' Ceco Steel Products Corp.: "This country is going to be out of the steel business if something isn't done to stop spiraling prices. I'm glad the steel industry has finally decided to stand by its guns...
Brenner (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rookie Cop Ernie Brenner (James Broderick) makes an unsettling discovery: sometimes a lawman has to stand up and fight back against the guys who are supposed to be on his side...