Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost all of CATC's American personnel stood by the Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...
...little (pop. 5,200) Bavarian village of Oberammergau one day last week, the townspeople stood silent in the sundrenched street. Inside the town hall, 25 elders and the parish priest were solemnly deciding who should play the 16 major roles of the 300-year-old Passion Play, scheduled to begin its first season in 16 years next May 21. As each part was filled, the town crier-a young man with shoulder-length blond hair-wrote the names on a blackboard for the people...
Before a touchdown was scored this season, the experts spotted Notre Dame and Oklahoma as football teams most likely to succeed. With steady and sometimes brutal authority, the two giants of the midlands stood the test. As the season progressed, two less obvious candidates-Army in the East and California in the Far West-rose to join them as the big four of college football. Last week, with season's end in sight, the big four marshaled their manpower against a common enemy: overconfidence...
...hundred sixty-nine freshmen and I dropped in on President and Mrs. Conant for tea last Thursday afternoon. "There were a lot more last week," said a stony-faced immobile young woman who stood leaning beside the Conant's front door, registering the tea traffic on a small counting gadget...
Handkerchiefs came out of purses and dabbed at eyes. Then one woman proposed a moment of silence; all the guests stood up. A few minutes later, weeping clubwomen clustered around an easel on which was displayed one of the last cartoons Helen Hokinson had drawn, a gift to the fund drive. The caption ("So Mary's working for the Community Chest too. How brave!") seemed an oddly suitable epitaph for Cartoonist Hokinson, who had died in the worst crash in U.S. airline history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...