Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood with Mrs. Roosevelt against "religious control of schools which are paid for by the taxpayers' money." But he was also certainly against parochial school children being excluded from milk rations, bus transportation, immunization programs, and the use of non-religious textbooks provided by federal funds...
...shotgun fire came from behind a signboard across the street. Special Agent Cooper, the man who was going to guard Mickey, toppled over with two slugs in his belly. Miss David was hit three times. A Cohen lieutenant dropped with a slug in his kidney, screaming. Only Mickey stood silent, without moan or shout. He had been drilled through the right shoulder...
Silence on the Grass. First act of the rally was a tribute to the men who had died in the mines the past year. The miners and their wives stood silent as massed bands blared the solemn melody of Gres-jord, which commemorates the great Gres-ford Colliery disaster of 1934 which killed 265 men. Then Sam Watson, chairman of the national Labor Party and of the Durham Miners, said simply: "You'd be more comfortable if you all sat down now." It was a homey assembly, like an outsize church social. The miners sat on the grass, handkerchiefs...
...sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...
...Tidings, and a leader among the younger, liberal element in the church. Tall, silver-haired Father McCarthy went to Los Angeles in 1937 at his own request, just after he had been ordained in Springfield, Mass., in his home diocese. "I don't think I could have stood New England," he says now. "The forward movement is so imperceptible...