Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down in the White House basement, Harry Truman stood close to the cluster of microphones and faced the hot stare of television cameras. He sounded like the Truman of campaign days as he spoke to the nation in his chatty Missouri twang. "Now, some people are saying . . . that we're in a depression," said the President...
...Divan. This week Lloyd, convalescing from a serious gall-bladder operation, stood at another satisfying apex of his life. He had given himself unstintingly to Shrine activities. He had been Al Malaikah Temple's Potentate. For the past seven years he had worked among the Shrine's crippled children's hospitals, had been a director and trustee of that program, which is a substantial and sober part of Shrine activities. It maintains 16 hospitals, annually raises millions of dollars through its circuses, East-West football game, annual dues and local contributions...
Schweitzer and Ortega. Both were optimistic about the status of human standards in the world today; both stood in agreement that man is good, and that, through his own efforts coupled with divine aid, he could better himself and his lot. Ortega welcomed, as normal and healthy, the doubts that now & again besiege humanity. Schweitzer felt that mankind was able, in fact dutybound, to take on fuller responsibilities...
...construction industry was coming back to life. In June, the Department of Commerce reported, total new construction topped the June 1948 figure by $294,000,000; for the first half of 1949, it stood at $8,453,000,00, an alltime record...
...Dark Explosions. On the day of the assassination, Sheean stood in the garden, saw Gandhi come across the grass toward the summer house, saw him climb the steps, and heard "four small, dull, dark explosions." Sheean nearly fainted, fell against the garden wall, and after some minutes realized that his eyes were scalding with tears-"more acid than I had known"-and that blisters had suddenly appeared on the third and fourth fingers of his right hand. "How could such things be?" he asked himself...