Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood at the club entrance with flagsticks raised in salute...
Last fortnight Union Boss Leadman chaired a citizens' meeting that in eight minutes railroaded through a plan to keep the private school going full blast, thus prepared for the boycott. Despite the opening of the public school last week, the viscose plant employees stood by the $1-a-week voluntary check-off system first proposed by Leadman's union to support the makeshift private schools. As a result, townsmen noted last week, Leadman's local is "achieving status by the bucketful...
Last week, as Bishop Théas called on his diocese to boycott the "foreigners," the new basilica stood finally finished. Less splendid was the open feud among churchmen. As Paris' Le Monde put it: "Monsignor Théas has paid a heavy price for his basilica in every sense of the word...
...Religio-Politician Athenagoras could also swiftly heal the wounds opened by his maneuver. Some worried that the rumbling dissidents might try to force him out. Should they succeed, the seat of Eastern Orthodox Church power could well shift to the patriarchy called "the third Vatican"-Moscow. Against such fears stood the new reconciliation between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS), which tended to downgrade "anti-Turkish" charges against Metropolitan James. One of the Cyprus reconcilers: James himself, who in London last week helped swing Archbishop Makarios behind the agreement, then prepared to move on to New York...
...Cannon is the author of several best-selling books, including Red Rust, about raising wheat in Minnesota, and Heirs, about Polish people in New Hampshire. An avowed liberal, she has been prominent in the Birth Control Movement ("I stood for selectivity, not race suicide"), in public school work ("You're deserting your country if you're deserting them"), and in the N.A.A.C.P. In spite of liberal tendencies, Mrs. Cannon was at "sword's point" with son-in-law Schlesinger over the last presidential election. ("My children thought I was crazy...