Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something like a miracle," said Cyprus' harried British governor, Sir Hugh Foot, whose nation had stood aside while the other parties to the dispute-Greece and Turkey-finally sat down together. Last week, after 55 hours of hard and friendly bargaining in neutral Zurich, Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis came down the main stairway of the Dolder Grand Hotel beaming at each other like a couple of old school chums. As they toasted each other in champagne, their staffs put the finishing touches on a 200-page outline constitution...
Soviet negotiators demanded that in return Iran should sign no pact with any other country permitting it to set up bases in Iran. President Eisenhower sent the Shah a strong letter, presumably reminding him that the U.S. had stood by his country when the Russians invaded his northern provinces in 1946. Washington also promised more aid. At week's end the Russians went home emptyhanded...
...Lindsay Almond, sitting alone and writing in his lawbook-lined study for almost two days, had made his decision, and he stood by it. Almond quietly lined up Byrd-organization moderates and others, quietly defied the Byrd leadership, warned the extremists that he would have to veto any slapdash measures designed to thwart the courts...
...cocktail party was buzzing as only Chicago cocktail parties can buzz. In the richly appointed Lake Shore Drive apartment of Chicago Financier Albert Newman, the guests chatted animatedly, gazed at the original Picasso on the wall, and the Monet, the Jackson Pollock. On tables and shelves stood Peruvian fertility symbols, jade bracelets, sculptures that looked like the superstructure of a Japanese battleship. The heavy air clinked with philosophy, culture and sensitivity...
...matter of course, he made the Porcellian Club. Summers he traveled abroad, became expert at living like a first-class passenger on a third-class ticket. On one voyage, he ingratiated himself with Boxing Manager Joe ("I should have stood in bed") Jacobs before the ship left the dock, spent most of the trip playing poker on A-deck with Jacobs, Max Schmeling and Morton Downey. In his sophomore year Alec decided summer trips were too short, set out to get his degree in three years, didn't quite make it (he lacked one-half unit), but managed...