Word: steading
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...Crimson's biggest asset remains its ability to create opportunities and to capitalize on them. Whomever Harvard plays, the contests will surely be close and the victor will probably be the squad which gets the breaks. And in that case, the booters stand in good stead...
...even he had been tickled by the icy ringer of Steinbrenner. Williams was offered the post of Yankee manager after Houk departed, but he was then guiding the Oakland A's, and Owner Charles O. Finley refused to release him from his contract. Virdon was hired in his stead. If Steinbrenner proceeds normally, Williams should be an ex-Yankee manager by the end of the 1983 season.-B.J. Phillips
...only because of what people know and see about him, but what they guess about him as well. New Yorkers know that Koch seems a hard-nose. What they guess about him is that he is not the hard-nose he seems, that he is in stead a quite naive man who may have toughened up because of various treacheries and disappointments, but who remains fundamentally naive nonetheless. It is said of Koch that he trusts others too little. It is more likely that he has trusted others too much (as he trusted John Lindsay, whom he supported for mayor...
...stead, Crocker proposed that a constitutional convention, along the lines of the London conference t transformed Rhodesia into independent Zimbabwe, should be held prior to elections. The difference would be critical: under such a scheme, Namibia's predominantly white anti-SWAPO political parties, backed by South Africa, woulD be assured a role in a new Namibian government, even if they were defeated at the polls...
...rushed upstairs to the briefing room and tried to convey a sense of calm. In stead, he was perspiring, his voice shook, and his hands trembled. He assured reporters that there was no command vacancy, that communications were open with the Vice President, and that no spe- cial military-alert measures were necessary. But then he blundered. Asked, "Who's making the decisions?" he replied...