Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow with Secretary of State Byrnes, to discuss atomic energy control with the Russians. He was entertained at a Christmas Eve dinner, "a supergala performance," in which Molotov served as toastmaster. After wading through a large number of toasts in "oceans of vodka, champagne, wine, and brandy," Molotov allegedly stood up and said "here is this man Conant, who probably has an atomic bomb in his pocket with which he could blow us all to tiny pieces..." He never finished. Stalin jumped to his feet, Roosevelt states, and sternly exclaimed that this was no joking matter." American scientists had done...
Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...
...hastened to add that this did not in any way imply friendship for "all those warmongers in capitalist countries . . ." One of his listeners was reminded that in the very hall in which Tito stood (a former country club for royal guardsmen), gay officers and their girls used to do the kolo, a Yugoslav folk dance in which the dancer first takes two steps to the left and one to the right, then two steps to the right and one to the left. Tito himself was twisting his way through a difficult kolo between Eastern and Western enemies. "Well, what...
Western German recovery; the U.S. stood committed to resist that pressure, as was underlined last week in a U.S. Army Day parade at the training grounds at Grafen-wöhr, Bavaria (see cut). In this situation the Socialists-for all their good intentions-would be irresponsible in rejecting the best offer which the Western allies could for the time being make...
Beneath sunny Bermuda skies, the ornate coach and two trundled out on the field while the six competing teams stood in Olympiad fashion along the edge of the playing surface. The coach door opened and his Honor the Acting Governor William Addis struggled out and mounted the stands to his official box. The crowd was hushed as the Governor spoke. "I now open Rugby Week," he said. The crowd thought briefly of the half crown admission price and then cheered good naturedly. Two teams surged onto the turf. Rugby Week in Bermuda had indeed begun, and for pomp and parties...