Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeared for an aging woman who charged that a specialist had promised to give her "the breasts of a virgin." The doctor, complained the plaintiff, had mutilated her instead. The judge permitted the plaintiff to disrobe to the waist before the jury in the judge's chambers. "She stood there," says Belli, "the tears dripping down. I figured later it was worth $30,000 a tear...
...paratroopers still patrolled the streets, hundreds of whites are keeping revolvers handy, and as long as the city's three top burgomasters (all black) remained in jail, disorder might strike at any time. Warned the Gazet van Antwerpen: "With oppressed hearts we wonder whether the people who yesterday stood against each other as enemies will be able to collaborate...
...long, 10 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. At nearby Boniato prison, six priests heard last confessions. Before dawn buses rolled out to the range and the condemned men dismounted, their hands tied, their faces drawn. Some pleaded that they had been rebel sympathizers all along; some wept; most stood silent. One broke for the woods, was caught and dragged back. Half got blindfolds...
Some 40 champions from a bevy of sports were in the crowd of 400 that stood cheering in Los Angeles last week as genial, handsome U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, 23. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year for 1958, got to his feet to accept his award. In shy dignity, Johnson, California Negro who last July in Moscow scored an astounding 8,302 points to win a tense, ten-event duel with Russia's Vasiliy Kuznetsov, thanked his parents for "making it all possible," added quietly: "I have but one goal in life: to live like...
...FOUGHT THE COLD LYING IN MY HUSBAND'S ARMS. When she awoke shivering and wet, Rosemary told Mail readers: "I stood up in the boat and stripped to change. The others were a few feet from me, but it didn't matter a damn...