Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather, it was more than a year ago that Ike stood up under one of the hardest leadership tests ever imposed on a U.S. President. In the midst of the 1958 economic recession, Democrats were shouting for the Administration to start priming the fiscal pumps. Some of the President's closest advisers urged him to take spending measures against depression. Ike stood firm, refusing to panic under tremendous pressure (TIME, March 24, 1958 et seq.), and the economy dramatically righted itself as he had insisted it would...
...Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe. A farmer's son, he worked his way through nearby DePauw University, graduated ('26) as an "A" student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan, Tinian...
...reared up unexpectedly at Vice President Nixon's homecoming last week. In the crowd of 3,500 that greeted him at the airport, not a single high-name Democrat was in sight. When Nixon got to the Senate chamber to take up his post as presiding officer. Republicans stood up and applauded, but the Democrats present, including Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, remained seated and silent...
...thicket, was for a moment almost hysterical. Then to himself: "You've come this far down for this? Let's get organized." He began walking a procedural-square search, found himself after two 90° turns on a country road. A dozen cars passed him as he stood on the road, wet, bloody, vomit-stained and haggard, and waving feebly. Finally a car slowed ("Stop," a small boy cried to his father, "there's a jet pilot standing in the road!"), took him to a country store, where he collapsed on the floor while waiting...
Part of the upturn was due to the auto industry's retooling for 1960 models. As automakers began phasing out production of their 1959 models, their production for the year's first seven months stood 49% above that period last year, bringing operations to an annual rate of 6,135,000 passenger cars and 1,200,000 trucks. For automakers, July's" estimated production of 551,200 cars made it the third best July in history...