Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rarely speaks out any more, stood solemnly before the House, shaking his bald dome and searching for the right words. "I fear," he said, "I am speaking to minds that are closed." It is only reasonable, he pleaded, to give a far-reaching legislative idea a fair trial. Though popular Sam Rayburn has immense prestige, the Congressmen listened coldly. Seeing them unmoved, Sam made a brazen appeal to the patronage instinct: "Let me say to you, my Democratic friends, that I found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along...
...days Chiang obviously enjoyed himself at official tea parties. Then he stood up before a meeting of Kuomintang leaders, and went straight to the heart of the matter. Said...
Concerned also for their thriving business in new barrels, Kentuckians threatened to legislate their own state definition of aged whisky if the ruling stood. Such matters are actually pure custom; the Scotch prefer used sherry casks...
...runway at Ohio's Akron-Canton airport one day this week stood a bright yellow, converted C87 that was once used by General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the U.S. Marines. Waiting for the take-off was a tall, sad-eyed man who was indeed the very model of a modern full-blown general, or admiral-or at least something mineral. His milky-blue uniform with brass buttons and bright gold stars & bars suggested considerable rank, if an indeterminate branch of service. But there was nothing indeterminate about the man inside the uniform. He was Samuel Floyd Keener...
Last week beefy Bill Richards stood in the midst of his 1,000,000 heads of iceberg lettuce (he will plant his broccoli this week), watched the slowly circling sprays of water soak the light brown soil. He was sorry, he said, that other New England farmers were having it so bad, but he was certainly grateful for that smashup on the race track...