Word: standings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...called because he used to carry an umbrella rain or shine, hang it on the bar rail in Johnson's saloon, and stand innocently by while contractors dropped tribute into the folds...
Many a U. S. citizen wondered why: 1) Britain was thus jeopardizing U. S. good will: 2) The State Department did not take a stronger stand. The U. S. had economic weapons to force Britain to show due respect, could send naval escorts to convoy merchant ships. What if a U. S. vessel should defy British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such...
...Finns had already trapped two divisions of their comrades. These two beleaguered Russian divisions were at Kitela, only 24 miles east of Sortavala, and had been there for weeks. Using the same tactics that had won at Suomussalmi (TIME, Jan. 22), the Finns had first retreated, then made a stand at Kitela, while encircling forces cut the Russian supply lines. Their food gone, the Russians had to live on provisions dropped by parachute. But last week help was no nearer than the Kollaan and Aitto rivers, and the two divisions at Kitela, their morale sapped by hunger and cold, could...
Called to the witness stand were such prominent friends of Dr. Lockhart as Professor Millais Culpin of the University of London, Psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees of London's Tavistock Clinic, Lord Dawson of Penn (King George V's physician). All agreed that Dr. Lockhart was suffering from a "fugue" or flight from reality, brought on by intense fear of a new war. His ordinary stream of consciousness was "suspended," his higher and lower brain levels "dissociated." Hence he had no understanding of the "nature and quality of his act." When his brief gust of abnormal activity had passed...
...clear-eyed consideration of the "deeper issues involved." but mark that it is based, not on material grounds, but squarely and fully on spiritual values. These ministers are men of God, and they say God tells them that the Allies are fighting a righteous war. They have taken their stand solemnly, and we may assume that they will stand by it, and preach for it, and defend it in the same spirit with which they uphold the most basic belief of their religious faith the very existence of God. But how likely is it that they will...