Word: stood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America"). Then as ebullient Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss charged into the room, Mikoyan's sour mien brightened. He opened the conversation bluntly. "You are a nice man, but we don't particularly like your speeches. Why are you arming with nuclear weapons?" The florid Bavarian stood his ground. "We are a dwarf," he replied equably. "You are a giant...
Going Fishing. The P-D has always stood for the hell-raising of Fitzpatrick, who has twice won Pulitzer Prizes for his cartoons. Pencil-slim (5 ft. 11½ in., 126 lbs.), well-tailored, tart-tongued, and an accomplished crapshooter, Fitz was born in Superior, Wis., attended the Art Institute of Chicago, warmed up with some front-page cartoons for the Chicago Daily News, and was hired by the P-D in 1913 at 22. Fitz devised dingy Rat Alley as a cartoonland home for the criminal and corrupt, and his victims squirmed to find themselves there. Wailed one Missouri...
...paintings by the late Cubist Painter Juan Gris. In the gallery above the fire hung more than 150 works by famed 19th century French Pointillist Painter Georges Seurat, including four of his seven major canvases, lent by U.S. and European collectors (TIME, Jan. 20). Only one closed fire door stood between the acrid smoke and scorching heat and the pick of the museum's permanent collection, richest and choicest trove of modern masterpieces in the world...
High on a hill above a village somewhere there stood a large mansion constructed by a man who could think of nothing better to do with his money than set up his own world. He managed with only middling success to convey his idea of that world to the architects, carpenters, masons, etc., but it was certainly true that the finished product had a little bit of everything...
...Tigers scored their opening try very near the end of the first half, as Crimson players, expecting to hear the whistle, stood idle. The second Princeton try came five minutes before the end of the last half climaxed by an 85-yard run by Hughes Agnew...