Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...died again about ten miles past the station. This time it had water in it but wouldn't restart. The girl and I stood out on the loose gravel and hot asphalt of the road shoulder, trying to get a car to give us a push start. She had no shoes, so she stood with one foot on top of the other, danced lightly on her toes, or sat on the car. She said that it looked like there were a lot of freaks on the road-someone ought to stop pretty soon. I said that was what...
...cops didn't seem too apprehensive. They stood in small groups as if they were waiting for relatives to arrive and talked to each other about football. I asked a woman in the snack bar what the cops were doing there. "Didn't you read about it in the paper?" she said. "The moon racks are arriving here today." Moon rocks, I thought to myself, moon rocks...
...there a single member of either House who could have stood up to the scrutiny of his personal affairs and come out with as whole a skin as Judge Haynsworth? The height of hypocrisy was the no vote of Senator Dodd of Connecticut, a man whose financial dealings should have ousted him from the Senate...
Diminished Symbol. The Senate did make a modest start on tax reform, and further amendments were held over for voting this week. The 27½% oil depletion allowance, which has stood as a symbol of tax privilege since the Administration of Calvin Coolidge, was reduced to 23% in the Senate, a kinder cut than the House version, which put the allowance at 20%. The difference -which amounts to about $100 million in tax revenues for each percentage point-will be resolved in conference. But neither the House nor the Senate ventured to restrict the oilmen's privilege to deduct...
...driving intensity about work can sometimes trap him into hasty accusations. When economists in the Johnson Administration once met with auto industry leaders in an effort to win voluntary price restraint, Nader was too quick to accuse the Administration of "acquiescing" to Detroit. In fact, L.B.J.'s emissaries had stood their ground...