Word: stood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockholm's Royal Palace last week, 13 men stood before old King Gustaf V and took their oaths of office. They were the Cabinet Ministers who formed Sweden's new coalition Government. Among them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had also headed the outgoing Cabinet. But there were some missing faces, and conspicuous among these was that of disillusioned Rickard J. Sandier, who had served as Foreign Minister the past seven years. He was going back to his old job as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics and his absence...
Sweden was moved by the Russian aggression as nothing else has moved her for years, but public opinion for once differed from Government policy. The Palace-i.e., the King and his advisers-and the minority Conservative and Liberal parties turned thumbs down, demanded strict neutrality. Their ideas stood, and Mr. Sandier fell...
...Sandler's place last week stood tall, 53-year-old Christian E. Günther, one of Sweden's smoothest diplomatists. Onetime Minister to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, he has more recently served as Sweden's envoy to Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign Minister Günther belongs to no political party, like all good diplomats has long cultivated the habit of keeping his mouth shut and his ears open. Unlike Mr. Sandier, he can scarcely be accused of being for or against anybody...
...middle of the isthmus, near Punnuojoki, the Russians attacked in waves. The Finns stood their ground behind their granite-slab defenses, finally sent them running. The Finns said they took 33 tanks at Loimola and on the isthmus, three of them null In 17 days' fighting they claimed to have captured 250 Russian tanks...
After the Hollywood press preview, Producer Selznick stood in the lobby, scanning the faces of the "toughest audience in the world" with as much eager ness as any tyro at his own first play...