Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were what bus drivers read before starting a run, not opening up the doors, while you stood outside in the cold. But having no alternative I began to sift through the pile. The authors' names were all unfamiliar, and the cover photos all dirty...
...PAINE HALL Thursday afternoon Dean Glimp addressed about two hundred and fifty students. Most of the students were sitting down, some milled about the back of the hall or stood in the aisles. It seemed as if most of the news photographers in Boston were there scattered about the front of the room. There were four reporters from the CRIMSON standing by the podium, with a student who covers University affairs for The Boston Globe. A television cameraman shone a blinding light into the eyes of the students so he could more easily film the meeting. News was certainly going...
...pictures showed that a tiny fragment of the bullet was wandering about in his ventricles, the fluid-containing cavities deep inside the brain. When Barrios lay flat on his back, the fragment stayed in an upper ventricle. When he stood up, it went into a smaller, lower ventricle. When he lay down again, it tended to drift back up. The great danger was that it would get stuck in the narrow passage between the ventricles, thereby cutting off the fluid that drains into the spinal canal, and causing fatal pressure within Barrios' skull...
Atkins has proved to be one of the most intelligent and dynamic Councillors. His stature as leader reached a high point one evening last April in hot, smoky Boston Garden. It was the day Martin Luther King died. Atkins, Mayor Kevin White, and James Brown stood on the stage and looked up at the tiers of young people, mostly black, and asked them to control their anger. The plea and the James Brown concert were televised, and Roxbury didn't explode that time...
...apply reason to problems. But in many ways, the ego-in-volvement of the participants was all too apparent at the conference. There were few questions asked and many speeches made. Lines of argument were rarely followed up. The participants sat while one would-be lecturer after another stood, carved out rounded arguments, presented them with self-conscious eloquence, and then sat down with satisfaction. At one point, R. M. Soedjatmoko, the Indonesian Ambassador to the United States and one of the most provocative of the conference members, asked the American participants to please define precisely what the liberal institutions...