Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make a liar out of me," yelled Earl. "I stood with you as long as I could, but you run wild...
...probably the same little man who awoke after a surgical operation, convinced that while under ether he had discovered the Final Solution to the central problem of existence. Unfortunately, the formula stubbornly eluded him. So he had himself put under ether a second time while stenographers stood by to record his revelation. It turned out to be a simple declarative sentence: "The entire universe is permeated with a strong odor of turpentine...
...student leader, had been in jail since February 1947, because of activities against the Morinigo government before it was overthrown. The other two, both of them young teachers, had been arrested after handing out anti-Morinigo leaflets and painting propaganda slogans on Asunción walls. They have never stood trial, have never been told how long their jail terms will...
Meat. In Chicago, steers brought $41.35 per 100 Ibs., 10? higher than the previous alltime record; hogs brought $31.85, 35? over the previous record which had stood for 15 days. But the price of corn, meat's raw material, was already coming down: prospects of a bumper crop drove corn down 6? to 13? a bushel during the week...
...Germany in World War I what the Bismarck was in World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British admiral's flagship that day stood the man who had found the Königsberg, a slender, malaria-sallowed big-game hunter named P. J. Pretorius. A Briton raised in the Transvaal, he had spent his life in the jungle. When he had completed his war chores (he became chief scout to Field Marshal J. C. Smuts...