Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition, the skills of a long diplomatic apprenticeship, the craftsmanship of a topflight international lawyer-and an unswerving faith in his mission. Thus uniquely endowed, he held the free world's battle lines with his display of peace by military-diplomatic power ("Brinksmanship," cried the critics), took his stand as the clear, stern conscience of freedom (TIME, April...
Defense Secretary McElroy, 54, who has long yearned to float back to Procter & Gamble (his last salary there: $285,000) to pick up the Cheerful chairmanship and rescue his bobbing stock options, re-evaluated his stand in the light of Quarles's death, said: "I will certainly be here in December." In fact, he will probably stay on the job until around February 1960, help present the defense budget to Congress...
...guest in question was Polish-born George Adamski, 68, who until several years ago ran a humble hamburger stand at the foot of California's Palomar mountain. Then one day he happened to meet a courteous and high-domed gentleman, and the gentleman was from the planet Venus. One thing led to another, and some time later a man from Mars and another from Saturn asked him in a hotel lobby if he would like to take a spin in space. The trip aloft included refreshments ("a small glass of colorless liquid") with an "incredibly lovely" blonde named Kalna...
...Faubus case, Guthridge merely grumbled a few words to the packed auditorium and sat down. Later he called the meeting "a trap," spoke darkly of "leftwing" P.T.A. leaders rigging "Communist-like demonstrations" at other schools. Such old saws cut no ice. What parents clearly preferred was the stand taken by Russell H. Matson, one of the moderate board members: "If we keep on, we can end up with a better school system than we have ever...
First, I have never seen one shred of evidence, be it on Bunche, Oppenheimer, or Castro, that could stand up in a court of law as evidence that these men either are or were Communists. As well as I can determine, the evidence of the Veritas Foundation on Dr. Bunche is exclusively guilt by innuendo and association...