Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carman wasn't the only varsity player who stood out in that first Darmouth game. Phill Clark clinched the first-string goalie job and second line center Myles Huntiagton got three goals to lead the scoring. But more than individual performances, team play--the most important element in a hockey team's success--has improved immensely ever since the Crimson's visit to Hanover...
...Budapest courtroom, seven anti-Communists stood trial, and went from accusation to judgment in five days (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Manhattan, eleven cocky Communists, also accused of conspiring against their own country, were in their fourth week of pretrial maneuvering, and a jury had not even been chosen. All the privileges of U.S. justice, including the opportunity of delay .and the doubtful right of sheer dallying with the court, was being given to them in its fullest measure...
...Communists, who have their own martyrs, well understand the saying "Blood of martyrs, seed of the church." They sought to remove Mindszenty, who stood in their way, but above all they sought to cheat him of his martyr's crown. Thus last week Mindszenty appeared in court, "confessing" and "recanting...
...tensest Senate hour Dr. Harris can recall is the time in 1944 when Senator ("Dear Alben") Barkley broke with Roosevelt. His most anxious time of Senate prayer: Dday, when the Senate stood silent for a few moments, then repeated after him the 23rd Psalm...
...couldn't have been more convincing as the dissolute, incestuous Herod; and Baritone Joel Berglund, as Jokanaan (John the Baptist), had the starkness of a primitive carving as he hurled his curses on Salome. When the curtain was down, instead of morosely reaching for their coats, the audience stood up and applauded in a 15-minute ovation. Said the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson next morning: "One of the great musico-dramatic performances of our century...