Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of point four, the vote of the last general meeting was reversed, so that the H.S.U. stood in favor of having all troops withdrawn from abroad...
...armored car manned by blond Germans of an international brigade stood on the side of the road. 'If an officer tries to go back, shoot your pistol,' a Spanish colonel instructed one of the Germans. The internationals were coming up. We watched fieldpieces hauled in among the olive trees and put into position. Near the road the Czechoslovakian crew of an antiaircraft battery was working quickly and efficiently...
...last month's 20, four stood out as best bets. In order of merit...
Thinking over the past, he did not doubt that he was an extraordinary individual, one that stood high above the rest of the world. Yet the world seemed to be getting the better of him before his career was half over. The financial situation had become intolerable when a letter arrived from his friend Liszt saying that he had no cash on hand...
...Austrian Chancellor's entourage considered it in bad taste that a high German officer of Hitler's staff was wearing a decoration not enameled but blazing with precious stones, such as would be worn only on the greatest occasions of State. After luncheon, dignified, firm Dr. Schuschnigg stood up as best he could for Austria's rights, was obliged to accept, and later carried out to the letter, a hard bargain which nonetheless left Austria fully sovereign. Notably he was forced to take into the Austrian Cabinet as Minister of Interior an Austrian Nazi, Dr. Arthur Seyss...