Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ridenhour described it, one of his C Company friends was stunned by the fate of a small wounded boy who had been standing by the hamlet trail. "The boy was clutching his wounded arm with his other hand, while blood trickled between his fingers," Ridenhour wrote. "He just stood there with big eyes staring around like he didn't understand. Then the captain's RTO [radio operator] put a burst of 16 [M16 rifle] fire into...
...shirted, slightly flabby guy with shoulder-length blond hair and a floppy walrus mustache stood up from the group and stepped to the podium. After a couple of words of non-introduction, he began to read poems from a sheath of white paper. I assumed he was Richard Brautigan. He ranks very high on the list of characters that least remind me of Robert Lowell...
...demonstrators, carrying a large NLF flag, stood on the front steps of the building chanting "Power to the people" and "Off the pigs," then attempted to enter the building. Three Harvard police told the group that the building was locked, and refused to let them...
These two moments were lifted out of time and lent a significance beyond the surrounding circumstances. They were tableaus, which might well have stood for similar incidents that Shakespeare did not have time to show. Nor were Hermione's attentions to Polixenes anything to be sniffed at: they were real, too real, and, even presented as normal incidents. would have been ample cause for jealousy. These moments gave him a king's share of time in which to corrupt his initially pure nature...
Parsons and David J. Armour, assistant professor of Sociology, stood talking near the door most of the time. Later, just after a player piano had been wheeled out of the middle elevator, they stepped in and disappeared...