Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such as Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, his veto weapon, and the appeal of his balanced-budget goal to the U.S.'s current conservative temper. Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph S. Clark, who sounded a call for a lot of bold new spending programs after the Democratic victory last November, stood up in the Senate and denounced the Johnson approach as an effort to "block that veto" by turning out "legislation which renounces or blurs or fuzzes or muddies the Democratic Party platform, policies and program. 'Block that veto' is a euphemism for 'Give the President what...
...grey, glum village square of the town of Kildare (pop. 2,617), a big red sound truck stood waiting last week, its horns pointed directly at the church. "It's the only way to get a crowd to listen to a speech these days," explained the politician in charge. "Catch them coming home from Mass." Finally the church bell rang, and a small crowd-oldsters and children mostly, the young adults having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin...
...dead of night, vandals sneaked into a Bridgeport, Conn, cemetery, made off with a marble statue of "General" Tom Thumb (1838-83), whom P. T. Barnum glorified as the most exhibited midget of all time. Swiping the grave marker was quite a feat: the stone Thumb stood atop a 3O-ft. pedestal, weighs...
...most influential cultural ambassador, to the world at large." James Gilluly, staff geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Sc.D. Citation: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman LL.D. Citation: "Fearless crusader against economic chaos, he has spent 40 fruitful years in the quest for order and equability among the free nations...
...lulled by a dream about a "sacred mission," Fred ran away and joined the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) at Valley Falls, R.I. The good fathers viewed the novice with some alarm. The boy already stood 6 ft. tall, weighed close to 200 Ibs., and the way he piled through a plate of turnips suggested strongly that he was riot meant to mortify the flesh. After two years the abbot gently told...