Word: stood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Teller stood on third with two outs in thebottom of the eighth inning and the score tied6-6. McKendry stood at the plate and swung at apitch in the dirt, but in so doing, she distractedBrown catcher Sara Rowbottom, who failed to fieldthe ball cleanly...
Standing next to three people holding religiously-themed pictures, a series of speakers stood atop a milk crate...
...ducked but saw him falling," junior Kristy Johnson said. "I thought he might even be dead. I saw him go down, just drop. Blood was covering his face, so I stood there for two seconds and ran to get help...
...acting like Hitler and appeals to his people's proud memories of the Partisan war against Nazi forces. And isn't the German Luftwaffe engaged in the NATO bombing? Meanwhile, in justifying that bombing, U.S. President Bill Clinton says, "What if someone had listened to Winston Churchill and stood up to Adolf Hitler earlier? How many people's lives might have been saved? And how many American lives might have been saved...
...truth in this analogy is President Clinton's point about appeasement: the longer you put off standing up to aggressive dictators, the higher the price. If we had called Hitler's bluff when he remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, 50 million lives might have been spared. If we had stood up to Milosevic when his forces besieged the Croatian town of Vukovar in the fall of 1991, perhaps a quarter of a million men, women and children might still be alive. But we--West Europeans and Americans--didn't, and so we now face the prospect...