Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the late Indiana summer, 65-year-old Fletcher Chapel stood as firm as its surrounding maples and oaks-still a modest roadside church, but a strengthened landmark in the rural heartland of U.S. religion...
...Artie's experiment worked. A record-breaking crowd, including a good many of the jammy jitterbug type which apparently hides under logs in the daytime, was lured into Boston's huge Symphony Ballroom. The Shaw faithful, plus a few horn-rimmed jazz intellectuals, clustered around the bandstand, stood through it all without moving much but their gum-chewing muscles. Right there, any resemblance to success stopped...
...that stood between Gonzales' goodbye to amateur tennis and his hello to the pros was his signature on a ready & waiting contract. Next month, Pancho is scheduled to begin a professional tour in Madison Square Garden with Big Jake Kramer as his opponent and little Bobby Riggs (who plans to be just a part-time player) as promoter. The deal calls for Pancho to pocket 30% of the gate, against Kramer's 25%. The $50,000 or so he expects to make in one quick shot dwarfs any amount he could make in years of wrangling and ducking...
...shabby little church stood just off a dirt road four miles southeast of rural Pimento, Ind. Rain dripped through the ceiling, and the wind worried at the rags and papers stuffed into broken window panes. Squirrels scuttled in & out of the root, and the lights no longer worked. For the ten or 15 oldsters in their 703 or beyond who persisted in coming to worship at the Methodist Church's down-at-heel Fletcher Chapel, there was a plain choice: fix up or give up. That was four years...
...dazzling bright room high above the late summer landscape of Manhattan's Central Park stood an exquisite blonde in a regal white dress (by Hattie Carnegie). She rustled her billowing petticoats and smiled a smile of quiet rapture. Above her decolletage, as bare as a lie and as bold as fashion, sparkled a small cascade of diamonds-or what looked like diamonds. Her slender, black-gloved hand gripped a black cigarette holder from which, now & again, she flicked a trace of ash with gracious disdain. A man's voice cooed...