Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farewell. On the vast parade field at Grafenwohr, once a training ground for Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, 11,000 U.S. soldiers snapped and wheeled through a 90-minute review. A battery of 105-mm. guns barked a 17-gun salute. From a jeep the 52-year-old general stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then, joined by whooshing F80 jet fighters, they swept low over the grandstand for the final salute...
...Horse Again. Democrats cheered with relief. They had not won anything; they had simply turned aside what would have been a humiliating defeat. The Taft-Hartley Act still stood, untouched, on the books. While the fight shifted to the Senate, the House Labor Committee would try to figure a way out of the Administration's dilemma: how to toughen up the old Wagner Act enough to win back Southern support, without making it so tough that Northern Democrats would rebel...
...their trees. They chose to give up the trees. At first it was only one tree to a block; before the Russians backed down last week hundreds had gone. But now tiny new seedlings are pushing their way up through the patches of earth where the old trees once stood. More than anything I have seen here, this is a symbol of Berlin's victory. Despite kidnapings, despite the Communist propaganda barrage, despite intimidation, Berlin's people have remained calm and unruffled. An old man carefully tending his tiny potato patch in the Tiergarten pointed...
...almost all businessmen had been banking on a strong spring upturn to check the recession. So far, no sizable upturn had come. Instead, production in April (as measured by the Federal Reserve index based on the 1935-39 average) had tumbled another 5 points to 179. The index stood a full 16 points below last November's postwar peak of 195. This was the sharpest five-month drop since the 1945 reconversion shakeout after...
...World War I flying ace, Rickenbacker had scored a 71 in N.E. Intercollegiate team play on Friday, to tie for low man among 164 entrants. He was the only Harvard man low enough to make the individuals Saturday and Sunday, and stood a good chance of winning...