Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru grew increasingly waspish to reporters and his own subordinates, and could not stand being contradicted. He angrily insisted that he had to do everything himself or it would not be done, and he spent as much time on unimportant household details as on national problems. He suddenly began to look older...
...very newspapers that had been accusing Nehru for months of dereliction of duty cried their "unreserved agreement" with Nehru's policy. The Indian Express, formerly his most savage critic, promised that "in his new, bold and unequivocal stand, Mr. Nehru is assured of the unstinted support of all parties and of the people...
...this issue in the Senate. Elder and others feel that Johnson, with pressure on one side from the President and on the other side from the Democratic Advisory Council, may be ready to support repeal. If Johnson tries for the Democratic Presidential nomination, a definite stand against the NDEA affidavit might help him to win Northern liberal voters...
...visit to Karachi came virtually to its close Tuesday night with a speech in which Eisenhower posed the hope of improved international relations but made clear the United States' firm stand beside Pakistan in upholding free nations against any aggression...
...over the company, General Foods has plunged more deeply into research. It used to spend .5% of its sales dollar on research, this year will spend 1.3%. Its laboratories are equipped with 19 storage rooms that simulate desert, winter, tropic and arctic climates to test how long products will stand up in each. They have a texturometer that can gauge the chewiness of everything from beefsteak to whipped cream, automatic analyzers that can tell how much gelatin is in a batch of JellO, or what kind of protein is in a piece of meat. The laboratories produced...