Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor he first opposed the minimum wage and hour law because he thought it would hurt the little businessman, then supported it. He is against Big Labor and labor monopolies; against the secondary boycott, the closed shop, industry-wide bargaining. Nevertheless, it was he who first stood up and fought Harry Truman's proposal to draft striker's into the Army. His main objective in the Taft-Hartley Act was to restore the legal balance between labor and management...
Precisely at 10 on Friday morning, Hoffman stood in the Oval Room of the White House. Wearing the blue suit he had worn to Japan-the only suit he had taken along and which he had worn ever since-he took the oath of office, watched by a beaming Harry Truman. Then he went to a meeting of the Cabinet (his job carries Cabinet rank), met reporters again and sortied up to Capitol Hill...
Prince and President shook hands. They stood at attention outside the White House door while a Navy band played the Belgian anthem and The Star-Spangled Banner. Then they went inside for a formal tea. Later, there was a white-tie stag dinner.* The party broke up early...
...Hungry Angels. Against these men and their human machine stood great forces. One was the force symbolized by the U.S. Embassy. Italians like America; they have at least an inkling of what American democracy is about. How, then, were the Communists able to stand up against American influence? Partly it was America's own doing. The U.S. had never effectively advertised the nature or the extensive amount of its help, or the peaceful intentions of its purpose. Above all, the U.S. was remote and rich. The Communists adroitly played on these facts, and on Italy's fears...
...Germans; there he sat with Communists. At the 1946 elections, no one was more surprised than De Gasperi when his loose, ill-organized party polled 8,000,000 votes, and emerged as the largest in Italy. It seemed that a good many Italians wanted precisely what his party stood for-Christianity and Democracy...