Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justice of the Fleece. In Kampala, Uganda, prisoners awaiting trial started an anticorruption drive, said they would not stand trial "until the judges stop demanding bribes from...
...three successive victories won in the last weeks of 1958: 1) West Berlin's municipal election, in which Communists got less than 2% of the vote; 2) West Germany's demonstration of solid economic support to the beleaguered city; and 3) the Western Allies' united stand against Khrushchev's proposal for their withdrawal...
...record, Batista protested: "I will not leave without handing over power." A suitable stand-in President was hastily found. Then Batista and his bemedaled generals and Cabinet ministers abandoned manners and moved to airplanes drawn up at Camp Columbia field. The regime and its followers thereupon bugged out, some 500 strong, as fast as planes and ships would bear them...
...this water under proper conditions is equally safe. The trouble originates right in the hospitals. Most of them have carafes with narrow necks, so they cannot be properly cleaned without a brush-and not a single bottle brush was found. Most carafes are made of materials that will not stand sterilization by heat, and no hospital specified disinfection as part of the cleaning routine. In one-third of the hospitals the carafes were "cleaned" in the utility room -along with basins, bedpans and urinals. In many cases, ice was prepared without adequate safeguards, then juggled into the carafes by employees...
Russia to Stand Firm on Berlin...