Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman had chestily started the fight. All he had got out of it was a sound drubbing. Wherry crowed triumphantly: "The Administration hasn't any leadership . . ." With the entire Truman program yet to be acted upon, Administration forces in the Senate stood demoralized and on the defensive...
...Gulzar Mahal Palace, the Amir sat on a silver throne, fanned by two garishly uniformed attendants; a Negro jester clad in scarlet tunic stood at his elbow. The Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each...
...revealed that over 1,000 sets had been sold with the detonators intact. Sounding nationwide warnings, the Government men admitted that they had no idea how many I.F.F. sets had been sold throughout the country. Only the skill of the individual buyers (probably most of them are radio hams) stood between them and maiming accidents, serious burns, or blindness from the dynamite caps and fiercely burning thermite...
...community which spends most of its efforts on Bach's B-Minor Mass and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. They were particularly welcomed Monday night when they gave Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor in its first Boston performance in Trinity Church. The crow which filled every seat and stood in every open space made this pretty clear...
...show was Marcks's Holy Spring, a naked, hopeful-looking boy modeled in memory of his son, who was killed at the front. The spirit that enabled him to make that one had stood him in good stead throughout the years of Nazi domination...