Word: stands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment of profoundest meaning came at an outdoor "civic reception" in New Delhi. When Ike, with Nehru, stepped up to the speaker's stand, he blinked and shook his head in astonishment; the crowd reached farther than eye could see. In neutralist India, Eisenhower invoked the memory of India's saint, implied that Gandhi himself would today favor the dynamics of strength: "America's right, our obligations, for that matter, to maintain a respectable establishment for defense?our duty to join in company with like-thinking peoples for mutual self-defense?would, I am sure, be recognized and upheld...
...fife-and-drum corps play his favorites: Dixie, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and The Yellow Rose of Texas. Said U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough: "He was the last warrior of a lost cause, the sole remaining soldier of a whole civilization. The combatants are all gone now, but we stand in awe of the bravery of both sides...
...brief communiqué ending the three-day exchanges barely mentioned the Berlin question, and when the Germans tried afterward to indicate that the Western Four had taken a stronger attitude on Berlin, another Western minister rejoined: "No-but we have not taken a weaker stand." This same minister, asked to say what the big confrontation accomplished, quipped that it had "relaxed tensions between the allies." In the end, every issue of substance was referred back to working committees for "further study." Working committees exist for just that; what miffed the members of these committees was that the Western Four...
...statue of Pharaoh Sesostris III will soon stand at the Mediterranean entrance to the Suez Canal replacing the giant bronze figure of famed French Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps. Then the Egyptianizing of the canal will be complete. Already, under the new Egyptian management, the Suez Canal handled a record volume of traffic in 1959 without incident. The canal has become the United Arab Republic's most profitable operation, earning more than $100 million last year. Last week, obviously impressed by President Nasser's plans for increasing the international usefulness of the great waterway, the World Bank lent...
...came a four-man opinion okaying El Paso's purchase of Pacific Northwest, making it the biggest gas carrier. FPC acknowledged that there might be a reduction of competition for California customers, and also less competition in buying gas from independent producers. But the commissioners took the stand that it was not particularly significant, because the merged El Paso-Pacific Northwest combine faces new competition in the California market from the Transwestern Pipeline Co., recently authorized to build a $192 million pipeline into the state, and also from a proposed Pacific Gas Transmission Co., which would bring in additional...