Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles west of Athens, where once stood a temple to laurel-crowned Apollo, is the domed Monastery of Daphni, whose fine mosaics were neglected for 700 years and are now recognized as a peak of 12th century Byzantine art. The church, named for the Virgin of the Laurels (in Greek, Daphni), stands behind a screen of cypresses, and its walls conceal a violent history. Seized and partially rebuilt in 1204 by Prankish barons, it was in turn captured and burned by Moslem Turks in 1460. The building was used in the 19th century as a powder magazine, fort, police station...
...born in the years following World War II. Twenty-five American students attending a student conference in Prague in 1946 realized that the United States stood alone without a representative national students association. Returning home, they initiated the movement that became USNSA...
...trip back to what used to be Braves Field is a rather sad experience for anyone with a baseball memory of more than five years. The stands are now green and bare, there is a rusty wire fence where the left-field wall once stood, and the grass grows fitfully around the outfield...
...news spread to the remotest corners of Europe, swarms of gypsies got into their cars and trailers and headed for the town of Lendinara in the Po valley. There, in the center of the Piazza San Francesco, a great tent stood, and around it the gypsies gathered to begin the vigil. Inside the tent, surrounded by seven tall candles, Queen Nella ("Mimi") Rossetto, sovereign of one of the largest (estimated number: 10,000) and richest gypsy tribes in Europe, lay on a straw mat dying...
Last week the Trib's pressagent, Tex McCrary of TV-radio fame, admitted that at its present rate the Trib stood to lose $1,000,000 in the fiscal year ending in July 1959, conceded that Jock Whitney, his wartime friend and peacetime neighbor (Manhasset, L.I.), was considering taking over controlling interest in the Trib as a price for his help...