Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the weekend invaders, "I Was a Male War Bride" has moved from the Metropolitan. This citadel of fine films now presents "Task Force," starring Gary Cooper," a sweeping cavalcade that sweeps (sic) the world's oceans to bring you the rich, human story of the men who stood by what they believed in--AND THE WOMEN WHO STOOD BESIDE THEIR MEN." Includes secret Navy combat films if that's your idea...
...Time stood still in the Boston Globe city room yesteray as both morning and evening editions appeared without Li'l Abner. Deluged by calls from College aflcionados, editors claimed no policy decision was involved...
...field at West Point, Blaik's offensive unit blocked against Michigan defense until it began to look as if Army was going to play a one-game schedule in 1949. From studying movies, Blaik learned that 230-lb. Alvin Wistert, Michigan's All-America tackle, stood solid as a steel lamppost against high blocks but fell "like a shock of wheat" before low ones. On another field, Blaik's defense unit drilled against Michigan pass plays until even the bystanders got tired of watching...
...barren room in Paris' venerable Sorbonne, a dimpled blonde teen-ager stood quaking before five quizzical professors. With quavering chalk she diagramed on a blackboard the working of a steam engine. Then, taking up other items of her examination, she stumbled through an account of the history of Japan from 1875 to 1905, explained the functioning of an eardrum and expounded her ideas on the philosophical principles of mathematics. When it was over she tremblingly left the room and, whispering "My stomach aches," took her place with other waiting youngsters...
Since then 46-year-old Miss Hepworth, wife of topflight Painter Ben Nicholson (TIME, Dec. 13) and mother of a 20-year-old son and 15-year-old triplets (two girls and a boy), has returned to the operating theater many times. In mask and gown she stood quietly observant behind doctors and nurses, pressing forward when one of her surgeon friends offered her a closer look. Back in her peaceful studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, she transferred her sharp-eyed observations to canvas...