Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virtually the only man who stood in a clear-cut position was blunt Bob Taft. The paradox of his position this week was that he was far more liberal than most of the right-wingers who supported him, and generally as liberal as some of the groping rebels who wanted to kick...
...have done for China, to be called a criminal! How can we talk with such people?" Vice President Li's name was also on the Red blacklist, but Li took a less personal view of China's crisis; he was still willing to negotiate. Other Kuomintang leaders stood with Chiang. The newspaper Ta Rang Pao railed against "peace politicians who let themselves be mouthpieces for Stalin" and "peace rumors that sugar-coat a poison designed to crush the Chinese government...
...Those who talked of "abnormal demand of the boom" failed to take into account the fact that much of it would be normal demand from now on, not only for steel, but for oil, autos, schoolhouses, homes, clothing and everything else. At year's end the population stood at 148 million, up 3,000,000 more consumers during the year...
...slowly grow to love her, and saw the suffering this love caused among his family. The reader could see this as well as the almost inevitable climax, but the Pastor could see neither. This gave the tale a special horror: there you (the reader) were, there he stood, and over there is family and the girl. Parties one and three were helpless while watching the good man being destroyed by a love that was only the consequence of his goodness...
...slender Emperor believed, as an old Etonian should, in the classics in the classroom and pluck on the playing fields. During World War II he stood firm against parents who suggested that Eton should be moved to a place more remote from enemy bombs. If London's poor could not move from London, said the Emperor, Etonians would not move from Eton. Later, some bombs did fall, barely missing a library full of boys. But Eton did not move...