Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arranged party caucus the same morning to state his case. Adenauer was conspicuously absent-asked by party aides to stay away-as Erhard rose to fume: "There seems to be a method behind [the Chancellor's] attitude . . . My reputation is to be systematically destroyed." For once, no one stood to defend the Chancellor, and one Erhard follower cried: "Ludwig, if you don't fight now, you will disqualify yourself for good...
Hoping to deny the Kerala government the money it needs to function, Congress pickets stood in front of tax collectors' offices in nine cities, to prevent anyone from entering or leaving. First in action was the 45-year-old cleaning woman of Trivandrum's district tax office, who threw herself in the dust before the entrance and lay there for 45 minutes before policewomen arrived to lead her away. Then 14 men pickets, sprawled in front of the building, were also dragged away by police. By the end of the first day of mass defiance, 215 demonstrators...
Nairobi police were waiting at the airport with a search warrant last week when Kenya's 28-year-old Tom Mboya got off the plane after a trip to the U.S. to receive an honorary degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C. For 2½ hours, as Mboya stood calmly aside, officials examined everything in his luggage. Reason for the bureaucrats' interest: on the flight home, Kenya's most dynamic African leader had stopped off at Tunis to meet with other leaders of the All-African People's Conference, formed last year in Ghana, which brought...
...opponents stood their ground-which is chiefly the round green hills of tobacco-growing Pinar del Río province. The 20,000 farmers united there in the Group of Owners of Rustic Estates held four big rallies that showed the most outspoken opponents of land reform to be gnarled-handed small holders. Felix Fernÿndez Pérez, the group's president, owner of 149 acres and once exiled as a fervent Castro supporter, told 1,000 cheering men: "Castro has fooled us." Said semiliterate Farmer Macho Villar, who also fought for Castro: "I will continue...
...coolly rapped out pastiche, prolegomenous, successfully spelled susurrus when Bobby shakily tiubbed it. Then Joel missed vinaigrous, and so did Bobby, leaving the game at deuce. In Round 30, Joel gracefully pronounced gracilescent and spelled it correctly; it was Bobby's chance to hold the tie. As he stood under the tall microphone, pondering fanfaronade, Bobby's long trousers seemed to sag. Out came fanferanade. All Joel had to do to win was spell catamaran, the 594th word. He did it without batting...