Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question: "Did you make good grades?" Answer: "Well, I believe I was relatively close to the dean's list part of the time." Question: "Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
When the Shah finally ended the press conference, the newsmen stood to applaud the ruler who had asked them to put him on the spot...
...week's end the union stood fast in its demand for recognition, while the hospitals were equally firm in rejecting it. As State Supreme Court Justice George Tilzer wrestled with motions and counter-motions on the injunction suits, he felt that both sides had forgotten that the patients' welfare should be their first concern, asked exasperatedly: "Has reason been abandoned by all you people?" The question was rhetorical...
...medium-price field, with 30% of that market; sales were up (117% in April, 60% for the year), and Pontiac was in a nip-and- tuck race with lower-priced Plymouth for third place in overall standings. On G.M.'s corporate-profit sheets, Pontiac stood second only to Chevrolet; around the G.M. building in Detroit there was quiet talk that Bunky Knudsen might well become G.M. president some day. From the start, Bill Knudsen insisted that his son be on his own. When Bunky was 14, his father told him that he could have a new (1927) Chevrolet...
...women. There are men in the novel, who say "what the hell" quite often, but they are neither very important nor very real. They are the book's furniture, and when one of them stabs himself, the reader is merely baffled, as if a sofa had suddenly stood on end during a tea party and spilled its stuffing in grief...