Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also the closest in 32 years both in popular and electoral votes. With 5,586 election districts still missing, the results stood...
...facts which had been almost completely overlooked before the election now stood out like very sore thumbs: 1) labor voted in droves against the Taft-Hartley law and worked quietly but feverishly to sell the Democratic ticket to everyone in sight; 2) many farmers, who had been expected to vote Republican as usual, voted for Harry Truman instead. Between them they caught the Republicans in an implacable crossfire...
This week, with a few changes still possible because of recounts, the House score for the 81st Congress stood at 263 Democrats, 171 Republicans, 1 American Laborite. The final Senate count: Democrats 54 (up 9), Republicans...
...diplomat who had some business to conduct with a high-ranking official of Rumania's heavily guarded Ministry of the Interior. After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally managed to work his way into the imposing white ministry building, and past innumerable guards, to the top floor. There stood two doors with a hardboiled, armed member of the security police posted before each one. The American showed his credentials to the guard at the first door, who looked him over suspiciously and disappeared into the official's office. The American waited, standing first on one foot, then...
Residents of La Fayette, Ind. (pop. 35,000) had never seen anything quite like it. One day they saw men unloading a truck at a weed-grown lot. Six days later a trim new two-bedroom house stood there, complete with shrubs and fresh-laid concrete walks. Most startling of all was the price: $5,750, including...