Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Viema has little beauty today, though the vestiges are there. the Germans made their last stand against the Russians on the Danube so that the East bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their...
...mess than we are now in. We also supported the present Greek government, with the Truman Doctrine, not because we like corruption or fascism, but because it was a good way to keep the Russians out of the Mediterranean. We thereby vitiated to a great extent our high moral stand in international politics...
Like this year's slate, the 1950 schedule includes no easy games. Coach Art Valpey's third season in Cambridge opens with a six-week home stand, starting on September 30 when Stanford repays the visit Harvard made to Palo Alto last month. The Indians have played once before in the Stadium, in 1931, but their opponent was Dartmouth...
Meyers ended the discussion by telling how a Union friend of his approached him during the Fact-Finding Board proceedings and said the Union was going to get Bloody Mary from the show "South Pacific" to mount the stand and recite the most famous line in the play, "You cheap bastards...
...unperturbed Earl of Lister shoots rabbits, his unruffled countess keeps ducks, and Tony, their nonchalant heir, after losing a seat in Parliament as a Conservative candidate, promptly tries again as a Laborite. This is too much for the family's fiercely Tory butler, who stands against Tony and wins the election. But it is one thing, of course, for a butler of the old school to stand in such circumstances, and quite another...