Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration, affecting policies beyond our shores, that has not been in the best interest of this country. It is not the courage of these decisions that will live, but the integrity of them." (Harry Truman, deeply moved by the tribute from the man he most deeply respects, stood with his arms half outstretched as he sought for words. Finally, he gestured toward Marshall and said simply...
Tojo, Matsui, Doihara and Muto were led into the prison courtyard while the other three waited in a Buddhist chapel. Frost was forming on the courtyard ground, and the air was misty. The four old men stood erect in G.I. fatigues. Matsui, shaking with age and cold and palsy, raised a quavering cry: "Tenno heika banzai! (May the Emperor live 10,000 years!)." The other three quaveringly took it up: "Banzai, banzai, banzai...
...execution chamber, the four mounted 13 steps to the gallows. All stood unaided while G.I.s adjusted black hoods and arranged the knots upon their necks...
...they will get it. It is up to them." The Egyptians, meanwhile, were demanding an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council and calling on all Arab states to resume hostilities against the Jews. King Abdullah of Transjordan, who has the only effective Arab fighting force in the area, stood pat. If the Egyptians were beaten, his position would be improved...
...settlement left both sides where they stood a year ago, when Petrillo charged that canned music from jukeboxes and radio stations was threatening the livelihood of his musicians. He then invoked the ban. But he will do little better now. Record makers will pay royalties of between 1% and 2½% a record into the musicians' welfare fund, about the same as before. Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying...