Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was wonderful almost everywhere. Skyscraper, silo and factory stack stood sharply against October's bright blue sky. Nights held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass. Lakes lay dark and still and the sound of an ax or a distant locomotive carried for miles on the tranquil...
...three brisk, businesslike days in convention Canada's Tories last week made two fateful decisions. They stood pat on their historic Conservative policies, ignoring the "Progressive" in the party's name. To head the party they picked a dynamic leader: George Alexander Drew, Ontario's Premier...
...Gorgeous George" looked his best in a grey double-breasted suit. At his side stood his handsome, smartly tailored wife Fiorenza (TIME, June 7), who said over & over: "I leave the issues to George." George took good care of the issues. His own man, Frederick G. Gardiner (another Toronto lawyer), was running the platform committee...
Interviewed after the meeting, the two speakers disagreed as to whether the Committee for Wallace stood under the two-part stigma. Ayer insisted Communists have made inroads into the HYD and the Wallacites...
Matter of Dates. After that season, everything DiMaggio did seemed to make headlines. His wedding to Dorothy Arnold Olson in 1939 (later ended in divorce) was easily the biggest public wedding ever seen in San Francisco. Fans climbed trees and stood on rooftops to catch a glimpse of the couple leaving the church. Joe made more news as baseball's balkiest holdout. Then, too, he seemed to suffer more than his share of injuries; fans were forever reading accounts of sore arms and pulled ligaments...