Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After an early-morning flight from Albany to Washington, a 4O-minute talk with President Eisenhower, a news conference, and a New England boiled dinner in the Senate dining room, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller stood outside the U.S. Capitol, posed for camera-carrying tourists, shook hands with everybody who passed by, finally swabbed off his brow and sighed: "Gee, does every Governor go through this?" The answer to that one was: No, only those who are running for President-and last week Nelson Rockefeller was running hard...
With his head start, Masami had a long lead. But suddenly he whipped about and started churning for shore, crying: "Same da! Nigero!" (It's a shark! Run!) Closer to the shelf, his three brothers quickly made it back to safety and stood up to watch Masami's progress. Some ten yards behind him, but rapidly closing the gap, a glistening black triangle cut through the waves. Moments later Masami's brothers screamed with horror when the dorsal fin slipped from sight; the shark had dived to attack from below. Warned by their cries, Masami abruptly flailed...
When William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick wrote last year's bestselling novel, The Ugly American (Norton; $3.95), they meant the title for the hero: a hard-palmed U.S. engineer working in Southeast Asia, who stood in sharp contrast to bumbling American officials abroad. A thesis writer might well peer into how the nation has curiously misused the title ever since. It has come to mean the very bumblers whom the authors denounced. The "Ugly American" is now a villain...
...Much more than two pennant races is fascinating the fans this summer. Teams far down in the standings have somehow taken on a new glamour. In Washington, the Senators are in their customary place at the bottom of the league, but fans are filling seats that have stood empty for years, on the chance that one of the new murderers' row of strong, silent sluggers may send a ball soaring toward the Capitol dome. Even lowly Kansas City won eleven in a row for the season's longest string, had the fans overflowing Municipal Stadium (capacity...
...team beat Milwaukee 9-8. In 1956, at the age of 20, Robinson broke into the Redlegs' lineup, promptly hit 38 home runs to tie the majors' record for first-year men, and made rookie of the year. This season, as of week's end, Robinson stood second in the majors in runs batted in with 102 (the leader: Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs with 1101), fourth in the league in homers, with...