Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half featured that obnoxious march from foul line to foul line that so often ruins basketball. For a brief moment it looked as though the Crimson would come back, but trailing 37 to 32, the varsity stood by and watched as Yale reeled off nine straight points...
Amid the rolling hills . . . the domed buildings stood bizarre and unexpected, like monstrous silver derbies tossed away by a giant...
...chuckling to himself, Frondizi asked what the joke was about. Ike replied that he was thinking of the toast he was going to give: he had decided to say it in Spanish, he explained, even though he is a miserable linguist. At dinner's end, the President stood up, announced that he was about to display his best Kansan Spanish. Kansaned he: "Brindo por el Presidente y la Señora de Frondizi y las buenas relaciones entre nuestros dos paises." (I drink to President and Senora Frondizi and the good relations between our two countries.) Last week...
When half of the Gazette's real-estate advertisers last week canceled or reduced their linage, Publisher Valentine, 42, an Annapolis-trained ex-commander, U.S.N., stood fast, ran a story reporting that the paper was being boycotted. Readers and retailers, although upset by the employment news, were realistic enough not to blame it on the Gazette, refused to go along with the realtors. By week's end, it was clear to all that Publisher Valentine had won his point: "Everyone in Antelope Valley is entitled to the news, whether good...
...President Eisenhower's desk stood a domed metal gadget about half the size of a derby hat. Current flowing from it spun a small propeller. Named SNAP III (for System for Nuclear Auxiliary Power), the little gadget is an atomic battery small and light enough to go into a satellite and keep its instruments and radio voice going at least ten times as long as any chemical battery that the Russians or the U.S. have yet employed...