Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five hours one day last week, TIME Inc. Correspondent Thomas Dozier stood by at the funeral of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombia's Liberal chieftain, whose assassination had touched off Bogotá's insurrection. Later, he wired: "Since the shooting ended, life has settled down to trying to cover the Pan American Conference, which is five miles away, get stories written, and still be in the hotel before the 7 p.m. curfew. If you are out after that, you risk being shot first and identified later...
That was where matters stood last week. Congress' job was clear, but not simple: to design, on a budget which would not disrupt the peacetime economy, a Military Establishment which would lay the foundation for a strong, permanent defense force, but was capable of meeting an emergency the day after tomorrow. That was the task. Unless Congress did it, the Military Establishment, which should look like St. George ready for the dragon, would look more like Alice's White Knight, hung with carrots, fire tongs, bellows, beehives and mousetraps...
Labor's biggest whale was reduced to herring size last week. In a brief climax to a long legal fight, John Lewis floated once again into a Washington courtroom, sniffed contemptuously at newsmen, stood up and glared when Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough came in, then plumped himself down to hear his fate...
Even more convincing than these gladsome harbingers, however, is the fact that the leprechauns are at work again. Latest depredations of The Little 5People center about the gates leading into the Yard. True to all that is finest in Harvard's long tradition of hospitality, these gates stood wide open all winter. But for the past few weeks, late-comers moving to and from the Yard have found their passage mysteriously but effectively blocked by the sturdy chains and locks which seal the portals firmly shut...
...Stock Exchange. Some 700 Exchange workers were still out. But the brokers who pinch-hit for them had no trouble handling its booming business. In one day, 2,140,000 shares were traded, the biggest since April 14, 1947. By week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average stood at 180.38, up 0.90 from the week before and only 0.66 from the year's high...