Word: standings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece, where the U. S. first took an aggressive stand against the Red tide, Communist guerrillas were...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy watched vigilantly as Hiss's lawyers called an elderly colored woman to the witness stand. She was Mrs. Claudie ("Clytie") Catlett, onetime Hiss housemaid. The Hisses, she testified casually, had once given her children "an old typewriter...
...Slovakia, monasteries were forcibly cleared out and the priests and nuns taken away in trucks . . . The meeting of bishops at Dolny Smokovec [last March], which was to have taken a stand on the demands of the government, was broken up when listening devices were discovered in the conference room . . . The latest conference of bishops in Prague was disrupted by security police...
...stand for political government by the discussion of free men and by fundamental consent. Because of this respect for the individual, which we learn from Christ and practice in our church meeting, we stand for political and religious freedom, for economic justice, for racial equality and for equality of the sexes. But we stand not less for the responsibility of every individual for the good of any fellowship of which he is a member...
...example, the experts were asked how much radiation a man could stand over a few hours without showing symptoms of illness. The answers ranged from 25 roentgens (the standard measure of X-ray dosage) to 1,000. Another question was how much radiation would be needed to knock out of combat 90% of exposed persons within a few hours; answers varied from 100 roentgens...