Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bucktoothed, husky lad with a wide grin, Brown stood No. 372 in his class, chose civil-engineering duty. This will spare both him and the Navy the potential embarrassments of the close-packed life of seagoing wardrooms. It will also get him a postgraduate engineering course at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before he goes to duty in a Navy shore establishment. He deplored the fuss about him: "I don't think the American public has matured enough to accept a person on the basis of his ability and not regard him as an oddity . . . just because of his color...
Answer the Question. McGohey paused at this show of defiance and turned to the court for help. Said Judge Medina: "Answer the question." Loudmouthed Defense Lawyer Harry Sacher stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...
Construction gangs cut down stately, 40-foot trees along Mexico City's famed Paseo de la Reforma. Bulldozers ripped at the broad islands on which the trees stood, and cranes swung weathered statues from street-side pedestals. Cuauhtémoc himself, last of the Aztec princes, was hauled from his sandstone eminence near the Paseo's intersection with Avenida Insurgentes. In his place, concrete mixers poured new pavements...
Some of the miners wanted to kill their captives. Mrs. O'Connor stood on a chair, tried to convince the miners that the foremen were not responsible for Lechin's banishment. She got nowhere...
...either side, the four-lane Paseo was flanked by tree-shaded islands that separated it from one-way lanes beyond. Students studied on the islands' marble benches. On summer nights, romantic couples often had to wait their turn for bench space. Nearby stood statues of 19th Century Mexican heroes. When placed there in the '90s, they represented the most notable sons of the Mexican states, but time gradually rubbed out their fame...