Word: stood
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...geeky ideologue seriously. Infuriated by what he saw as Governor Pete Wilson's anti-immigrant stance, Unz challenged him in the '94 G.O.P. primary, garnering 34% of the vote. Unz's opposition to Proposition 187, the measure that would have excluded illegal immigrant children from public school, has stood him well in attracting Latino support. "My mother learned English easily in school," he says. "Latino parents want their kids to learn English...
...never kept those famous photos, never talked much about it to his family. But now he feels that he should, no matter how much it hurts. You can argue that the Kennedy name has lost some of its shine, but he doesn't want to hear it. They stood for something, he says. Juan apologizes again for his limitations and wishes he could have done more to honor the Kennedys, to honor Hispanics, to honor his own family...
Fellow tri-captains Gudeman and Holly Rogers anchored a strong Crimson defense throughout the season. Gudeman in particular stood out, her 24 ground ball controls on the season leading the team. Her consistently strong play earned her an All-Ivy First Team selection as well...
Around this date in 1989, a lone protester stood in front of a column of four Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square. On June 4, 1998, a lone protester sat in a wheelchair near the Monument to the People's Heroes at the heart of the same Square, handing out leaflets. He wasn't even protesting the massacre; his leaflets demanded compensation for a crippling shooting in the southeastern Fujian province. Like his predecessor, he was dragged away, kicking and screaming, by the authorities. Unlike his predecessor, he lived to protest another...
Once again, Terry Nichols stood silently before Judge Richard Matsch, this time to receive the sentence he'd feared since being convicted last December in the Oklahoma City bombing case: Life in prison, without parole. The defense had argued for a seven-year term with the plea that Nichols couldn't very well say anything in his defense without the risk that it might be used against him in the murder trial that the state of Oklahoma hopes to conduct...