Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfinished Business. Johnson won a 31-minute standing ovation when he strode into the House chamber behind Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller and stood behind the lectern, nodding and smiling to acknowledge the applause. Then, pleading yet proud, he recited some of his Administration's achievements at home: Medicare, three far-reaching civil rights laws on housing and voting, job programs that have trained 5,000,000, the lowest unemployment in nearly 20 years (3.3%), more than 1,500,000 college students on federal scholarships, Project Head Start for preschool children, support for pupils below college level...
...Helen, who teaches science at a Manhattan school, never ceased to labor for his release. She spoke millions of words at protest meetings and ground out countless appeals for help on an electric typewriter, the one modern appliance in the Sobells' drab Greenwich Village apartment. With friends who stood behind Sobell throughout his imprisonment, she spent roughly $1,000,000 on legal maneuvers, including seven fruitless pleas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Money came from those who believed that Sobell had not received a fair trial. Among the doubters were Nobel Prizewinning chemists Harold C. Urey and Linus Pauling...
...Mansfields. But the young lady who was the focus of attention had missed her nap; she ignored the distinguished company and gave vent to lusty cries until she was soothed by her mother and her new godparents, Michael Kennedy, 10, and Mary Kennedy, 9. With calm restored, Ethel Kennedy stood aside to watch New York Archbishop Terence Cooke christen one-month-old Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's eleventh child. ∙∙∙ In June of 1770, midway on his first voyage around the globe, England's Captain James Cook was navigating the Endeavour along Australia...
...Vatican took charge of the institute's affairs. He is Paul Marcinkus, a 47-year-old native of Cicero, Ill., and former special assistant to Pope Paul. In a 2 ½-hour ceremony in St. Peter's basilica in Rome, a choir chanted and Swiss Papal Guards stood stiffly at attention while Marcinkus prostrated himself at the Pope's feet to be made a bishop. The next morning, the burly Marcinkus, who stands 6 ft. 3 in., star ed his new job as the institute's Secretary of the Administrative Office...
...just said yeah, I guess we ought to, and Douglas disappeared from my life until the next fall when the Ultimate Spinach album came out. I was with the Bead Game by then, fighting hard to get ahead, playing exclusively our own music, and I read, as I stood there holding this green vegetable psychotic album in my hands, "Top-40 isn't where it's at, any more." The Ultimate Spinach had arrived. I had a strange premonition that I was doomed to follow in Ian-Bruce Douglas' footsteps, although I hated his music. The Boston Sound was beginning...