Word: stood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feels he must publish them, both to keep his failing paper alive and to save Britain from a reactionary politician who may become Prime Minister. Linley disagrees, telling Halliday that publication of Molly's photographs, obviously private and taken in mutual trust, would be a betrayal of all she stood for in life...
Thus began a cascade of defections from what was a rare unanimous international consensus backing U.S. military action. The U.N. announcement decisively changed the geography of the crisis. It was not Iraq that was isolated anymore but the U.S. The result was preordained: America stood down...
Stoles have a very particular meaning in Roman Catholicism: they signify ordination. But Ramerman is a woman and, according to church doctrine, cannot be ordained. It did not help that she stood next to the priest during Mass, read the preface to the Eucharistic prayer and raised the chalice of wine at the end of the prayer--activities that are the purview of the ordained. For years the Vatican peppered the Bishop of Rochester with complaints about Corpus Christi and probably made its feelings clear during his official visit to Rome this year. The message: Such heresies must...
...financed a Kurdish revolt to destabilize Iraq, which was menacing Iran. Thousands of Kurds paid with their life when the U.S. dropped the plan after the Shah of Iran made peace with Baghdad. In 1991, President Bush called on Iraqis to revolt, but when they did, U.S. troops stood by as Saddam crushed the uprising by slaughtering thousands more...
...kiosk has stood in the Holyoke Center for three years. Passers-by can purchase toys, T-shirts, hats, ties, books, ornaments and stationery from the stand. The 1998 UNICEF catalog and literature on the organization are also available...