Word: stand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American public is not going to stand for what we have been doing much longer," said Kansas Farm Bureau President W. I. Boone last week. "The public is not going to keep on putting out money without getting results." Like many another leader in the wheat-corn belt, Boone recognized that farmers have just about harvested their way to the end of public patience with a farm subsidy program that now costs a scandalous $6.6 billion a year and gets worse with each crop (current Government-owned surplus: $9 billion...
...lone returnee, captain Mike Donohue, will be back at guard, where he averaged nine points a game in 1958-9. Donohue is a fine playmaker, and the team's floor leader. Quick and aggressive, he should stand out on defense as well...
Asked about the National Defense Education Act, he asserted that Boston University's stand was "wiser' than Harvards outright rejection of government funds. B.U. has permitted students to participate in the loan program for one more year, "giving Congress a chance to work things out," he said. McCormack evaded questions concerning the fate of any bill in the next Congress which called for repeal of the loyalty affidavit requirement...
Huff and his wrecking crew have inspired a fanatic band of followers who stand four deep in the mezzanine of Yankee Stadium to cheer them on. To get a look at the field, they build platforms out of anything handy-beer cans, stray cartons, or trash baskets. And when the Giant defensive behemoths take over-particularly deep in their own territory, where the tackles are roughest-the mezzanine turns into a howling, back-pounding jungle...
They have brought Golden (Nehemiah Persoff) to Charlotte, N.C., introduced him around, and planted him in front of his typewriter. They festoon him with homely metaphors and Yiddish phrases and good, bad and indifferent jokes. They show him gradually, despite his embattled stand for integration, winning the hearts of all his white, Southern, Gentile neighbors. But in this game of hearts lurks a menacing queen of spades-the unsuspected fact that Golden had once served time in prison for mail fraud. It overhangs his life, until at last it breaks out in the headlines-only for all who know Harry...