Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chris also seemed a bit odd, at first sight, to Standard Oil Heiress Mary Caroline Pratt when she met him on a blind date. "He was a great, gangling thing with a cap and plus fours," she recalls. "All I could do was stand and giggle." Four years later they were married...
...courage to give Ike some blunt advice: "If you think there's going to be an Eisenhower draft at the convention, coming from the grass roots, you're very much mistaken . . . You've got to let your friends know where you stand...
...above all, Dulles was the clear, stern conscience of freedom. Said Dulles: "Our nation must stand as a solid rock in a storm-tossed world . . . Rededication to the faith of our fathers is . . . what is needed to make apparent the futility of any world program based on the suppression of freedom...
...acceptance of Red arms; 2) Nasser seized the Suez Canal; 3) Dulles tried with U.S. allies, with the U.N., to work out a solution and failed. But when Britain, France and Israel launched a sudden attack against Egypt without notice to the U.S., Dulles took the toughest stand for principle of his career. Said he, extemporaneously, in one of his finest speeches...
...Always stand at attention when telephoning; otherwise your slouch will show in your voice...