Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Slanderer." Compared to Morse's 20,000-word tirade, Clare Luce's 22-word wisecrack was a pebble slingshot against a ton of brickbats. But it stung Wayne Morse. As soon as the Senate wound up its close REA vote (see The Congress), Morse stood up. Not so soon, said Morse, "did I expect that those of us who voted against the nomination of Clare Boothe Luce would be proved so right." He read off her horse-kick comment, argued that it showed he was right all along about the "emotional instability on the part of this...
Overnight the presidential future books trembled: Nixon clearly stood with McClellan for a sterner labor bill in defense of rank-and-file rights; Kennedy lost face; Humphrey, in absentia, looked silly. And on close second look Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, famous for his deft control of the Senate, looked like the man who had let it all happen. Wags whispered that his L.B.J. initials meant "Let's Block Jack...
...politicians by jumping in, almost unknown, to win the Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest crisis since Appomattox...
...salute anyway. In a few minutes, a cane-swinging Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana strode down the gangplank of his chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny, 2,000-man Guinean army, a banner waved over their heads saying: "Vive I'Union Guinée-Ghana!" But last week, as Nkrumah started his long, 21-day conference with Touré, the big question was: How much life is there in their union...
...Martyrs." In the beginning, miffed at Guinea's lone vote of no to the De Gaulle constitution, Paris had been guilty of petty harassments. But since then, Paris has stood patiently by, ready to help, though annoyed by a new motto the Guineans inscribed on a monument dedicated to the dead of World War II: "To all the martyrs of colonialism...