Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GERMANY: The Western allies, said President Eisenhower, have "always stood for the principle of the peaceful reuniting of this people of 70 million, and whose division we think is detrimental to the peace of the world." But East and West Germany must be welded by free elections, not by Soviet threats...
...ever since-and I don't give a damn." Said the President: "I think that most of you have found that I have had a little bit too much sense to waste my time getting mad at anybody . . . And to say that I have ever stood still while any man, in my presence, was reviling General Marshall is not true...
...have stood by, silent and tight-lipped for three days, while New Yorkers have done without their major newspapers. Every day we have held back, hoping the strike would end. We can stand by and watch no longer. The CRIMSON is bringing its newsprint to New York...
...Florence Hornung charged that much of Allen's series was untrue, but refused to point out any specifics. Reporter Allen, a Briton whose application for U.S. citizenship is pending, stuck to his guns, defended the truth of his series and the propriety of his espionage. The Telegram stood by what it had printed. Said one editor: "We studied every article carefully and toned down all of them. Conditions are much worse than what we said." Superintendent John Theobald complained, but the Telegram planned to let Allen's exposé run its full course this week, end with...
...color plates are little short of perfection, do much to bring the Byzantine marvels of St. Mark's Cathedral down from the shadowy vaulted ceilings into the reader's lap. Many a tourist has stopped in Venice and visited its cathedral without ever dreaming that he stood at the heart of one of Byzantium's finest offshoots. This book should send him back once more...