Word: stood
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...eternity for a teenager to wait for a girl. Even so, Vili says he will. "No matter how long I have to wait," he told the Globe, "I'll be there because our love is so special that nothing can stand in its way." So far, almost everything has stood...
Salman Rushdie was a shameful choice to chronicle Gandhi's life. Rushdie has lived outside India for most of his life. He should not be the one writing about a brave, inspiring and selfless leader. Sure, Gandhi is not short of critics, but he stood firm against the greatest power of the time and saw the realization of a free and self-ruled India. RAJESH L. MAHTANI Hong Kong
After all the seats had been filled, about 20people stood listening in the hall outside, andduring the course of the nearly two-hour speech, afew tried to fill seats vacated by audiencemembers who left early...
With his voluminous poetry reckoned in, Hugo's effect on French literature exceeded anything short of the Bible itself. Flaubert, Baudelaire, Gautier all stood in his shadow, along with foreigners like Dostoyevsky and Conrad. In the words of English scholar Graham Robb, whose brilliant new biography, Victor Hugo (Norton; 682 pages; $39.95), does for this sublime windbag what George Painter did for Proust 30 years ago, Hugo was "a one-man education system through which every writer had to pass...The story of Hugo's influence after death is the story of a river after it reaches...
Sure they teach the civil war in school. But to bring one of the most important events in American history to life, there's nothing quite like standing on the same ground that General Ulysses S. Grant stood on more than a century ago or walking across the fields where tens of thousands of soldiers died...