Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army, however, has never been more outwardly enthusiastic about any new program. "Everyone connected with the program agrees on its success," writes Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Bergquist, commanding general of Fort Dix. RFA should stand, not for Reserve Forces Act, says Maj. Gen. P. D. Ginder, assistant chief of staff for reserve components, but for "Ready For America...
...Johnson lived up to the billing. Said he, aiming at the Republican line on the budget: "There are two ways to remain fiscally solvent. One is to pull in, shrink back, scrimp and do nothing except sit in a rockin' chair. The other is to stand, produce, work longer and harder." Said he of Dwight Eisenhower: "We are meeting tonight in the lingering twilight of the Great Crusade. And now there's nothing left but a desire for quiet -and government by the threat of veto...
MECHANICALLY O.K., BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT INGREDIENT IS MISSING. WHERE DOES THE PARTY STAND; WHAT ARE ITS PRINCIPLES? Goldwater knew what the principles ought to be: LET THE PARTY DECLARE AGAINST CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT . . . LET THE PARTY QUIT COPYING THE NEW DEAL, SEEKING ONLY FOR VOTES...
...poor and without hope," he told a well-filled House chamber, "are not free peoples. A stagnant and impoverished country cannot uphold democratic institutions. On the contrary, it is fertile soil for anarchy and dictatorship." At the National Press Club he made his point again: "The United States cannot stand aloof from the fact that almost 200 million individuals live in poverty on our continent...
...heart, Mike settled down in Farnham, Surrey, to run a thriving garage with his mother. Nothing could have pleased her more. Four years ago Mike's father, a onetime racing driver himself, was killed while speeding home from a racing meet. Fortnight ago Mike did consent to stand in for Donald Campbell in his try next year at the world land-speed record, but only in the event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted: "Not likely, mate...