Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drums went bang, the cymbals clanged, and the horns they blazed away-and Harry Truman beamed & beamed. All through the bright, chill afternoon, the newly inaugurated 32nd President stood in the nippy wind as the biggest inaugural parade, in Washington's most expensive inauguration, passed before...
...President Li Tsung-jen, one of his hearers asked: "What can Li do? What are his ways & means to improve the present situation?" Everybody in China, including Li, knew the answer. Li had almost nothing with which to bargain with the Red armies who at week's end stood within 15 miles of China's capital, Nanking. The government was preparing to move to Canton on the south coast and its armies were pulling southwest toward Kweilin and south toward Chekiang Province...
...since Hitler had stood on the French coast looking west across the Atlantic had the danger been so great...
...part, the President went out of his way to show that he had acted without personal rancor in dispensing with Miranda's public services. On the day after the shuffle, when Peron received the Mexican decoration of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at his right hand. But down the hall at Government Palace, four assistants busily cleared Miranda's belongings out of his office, and at week's end Miranda flew off to play on the beach at Uruguay's Punta del Este...
...cars skidded and collided outside the Union yesterday between 12:45 and 1 p.m. as over 30 freshmen, weary from exams, stood by and cheered the unexpected action...