Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest attractions last night was the B.C. crowd, which stood, clapped, heckled, and threw streamers with great gusto, exceeded not even by the boola-boola of Yale...
...students or the university. Such a course of action, if taken, singles out a single activity to be excluded from university recognition and denies to the individual the choice of opportunity, the right to participate, the liberty of conscience and the very academic freedom which Harvard has always stood...
Bishop says that during the Dallas confusion, the White House "bagman"-the officer who carries the codes for nuclear attack-was at one point nowhere to be found. "As the clock hung silent, the United States of America stood, for a little time, naked." This is nonsense. Kennedy's military aide, Ted Clifton, knew where the bagman was and where Johnson was. And Bishop's statement to the contrary, Johnson had certainly been briefed at least twice on the use of the nuclear emergency system. Clifton, who established communication with the White House, was also in continuous touch...
Everyone there was terribly polite. In fact, I was generally treated with more deference and gallantry in three days at Yale than I have been in three and a half years here. The boys at the News stood up when I came into the room, they helped me on and off with my coat, and they watched their language. I heard "Oh Sh . . . ugar" at least twice, and "F . . .ooey" once, which I must say embarrassed me a great deal more than what they had intended ever would have...
Five U.S. Army veterans of Viet Nam stood before their Commander in Chief in the White House last week to receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor. Lyndon Johnson chose the occasion to caution that "other bitter days and other battles still lie ahead." He added: "I cannot emphasize strongly enough that we have not attained peace-only the possibility of peace...