Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy left, and Earl Long, 63, stood alone in a simple white room whose window was guarded with heavy wire mesh. Outside, the corridor was kept locked at both ends, and close by, within a moment's call, were two male nurses. Earl Long, serving for the third time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) as one of the most powerful and certainly one of the most controversial Governors of any U.S. state, drifted aimlessly around, strolled up and down the corridor, babbling endlessly to himself. And back in Louisiana, thousands of men and women, those who had voted...
Asked last week if he ever failed an assignment, Osborn seemed almost surprised, snapped: "Negative." And as George Washington stood poised for launching, it was clear that her skipper planned affirmative results in one of the most important jobs in the age of the atom...
...whose loyalty was to the Central Powers and who died fighting against this country; secondly, many feared that the proposed chapel might turn out an architectural monstrosity in a Yard already cluttered with buildings; and most important, a large and vocal group, while in favor of a war memorial, stood strongly opposed to making it a chapel, especially a chapel confined to one religious tradition. Protests aside, however, Appleton came down and Memorial Church went up, its slender steeple rising 200 feet...
...first instinct of the Red rulers was to let the city wither and die as a hated symbol of capitalism. The busy docks, which had berthed as many as 30 ships a day, stood empty; factories were stripped of machinery; efforts were made to reduce Shanghai's "swollen and unreasonable" population by deporting surplus workers to the provinces. A wave of suicides swept the city. Foreigners, who had once numbered 60,000, dwindled to a handful (there are now fewer than 100 Westerners, of whom 53 are British), while the Reds confiscated millions of dollars' worth of Western...
Although no amount of post-mortem analysis can altogether remove the aura of a grand failure from Carles's work, it now appears, in retrospect, that Carles stood so alone because he was so far ahead. As a young man he had gone to Paris, fallen under the spell first of Edouard Manet and then the postimpressionists, sipped coffee with Matisse and Brancusi. Back home in Philadelphia, where he taught from 1917 to 1925 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Carles slowly digested his European lessons, then moved on to a symphonic orchestration of colors...