Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pink Distraction. There was one distraction from an independent source. New York's pink-hued Vito Marcantonio popped up with a bald amendment which, after throwing out the Taft-Hartley Act, would reinstate the 1935 Wagner Act as it stood. This was exactly what C.I.O. leaders had originally demanded. Marcantonio shrilled that he wanted to make the issue clear-cut. But it was just the kind of clearcutness that cautious Administration leaders wanted to avoid...
...Republicans' Joe Martin stepped across the aisle and whispered to Marcantonio. Vito got to his feet and demanded teller vote on his measure. Republicans stood as a man to support this demand, then filed down the aisle to be counted against the bill. Thus, angry and embarrassed Administration leaders were forced to make a public record of the fact that out & out reinstatement of labor's cherished Wagner Act was beaten by the House by an overwhelming 275 to 37 vote...
...with enthusiastic piety. On one of those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before. As he ranted, he stood close behind U.S. Attorney John M. Kelley Jr.; from time to time Kelley brushed chewed fragments of Palmer's Life Savers from his hair...
...Prophet. When four years ago MacArthur stood, tieless and ramrod straight, on the veranda deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, accepting Japan's surrender from a group of uniformed and frock-coated little men, neither he nor his nation realized that...
...naval, written anonymously in 1876 and titled "Student Life at Harvard," described the aspect of these gladiators flowers. As time passed, these contents "The Class, before so gentlemanly in appearance, stood transformed into a rabble of rowdyish and seedy-looking characters." Lowell agreed with this descriptive, remarking that "the Senior class are distinguished by the various shapes of eccentric rim displayed in their hats...