Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have stood by, silent and tight-lipped for three days, while New Yorkers have done without their major newspapers. Every day we have held back, hoping the strike would end. We can stand by and watch no longer. The CRIMSON is bringing its newsprint to New York...
Fairbank criticized the Administration for failing to take a stand on the issue of self-determination for the Formosans, and predicted that "the pull of the mainland will eventually be a very powerful one." If China continues to expand industrially and increase its national power, he said, "it will become too hot for us to hang on to Taiwan in the future...
...last eleven years, he has threatened to wage a war with India over Kashmir. If the Pakistanis who invaded Kashmir in 1948 had not done so, and had not shown their true colors by looting, plundering, and raping Hindus and Muslims alike, they would have some ground to stand on today. It is not surprising that in two elections the People of Kashmir have shown their determination to stay as an integral part of India. If the Indian leaders, like their Pakistani counterparts, had also misdirected the energies and frustrations of their people against another country, the political plight...
Bicker, like the British constitution, is a system of values developed over the years by the concentrated effort of some of our finest minds. Though Bicker's history scarcely ranks with Britain's in terms of length, the two stand together as monuments of principle. No less resolute than Mr. Churchill in 1940, the boys of Bicker know full well the consequence of yielding to that which is foreign. If Mr. Churchill was busy thwarting the idea of a Master Race, and if the Bicker boys now seem intent on preserving it, no matter; it is a question of principle...
...next of kin will be interviewed by clinical pyschologists. Meanwhile, basic data on the crash will be gathered, and several staff members will study the cases from their respective points of view. Finally, a Roman Catholic priest will evaluate the facts of the crashes from a moral and ethical stand point...