Word: stood
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...completely. The avenging assassins of Jihlava, instead of suffering "severe measures," walked boldly into the ancient Greek Orthodox Church of Ilie Gorgani in Bucharest, through the floodlit, green-draped entrance, past the urns of burning incense on the stone stairway. Before the altar, where 26 uniformed Iron Guard youths stood at attention, they knelt, joined the solemn prayers of the priests over the candlelit caskets of Codreanu and his "martyred" followers...
...construction laborers. The issue was a threepence-an-hour wage increase. If the strike motion carried, it might mean the end of the peaceful building of the common man's Britain. After four hours of argument a 48-year-old grey-haired Welshman named Owen Jenkins stood up. Owen Jenkins said he had two sons in the service. "Could I face my boys if they came back, looked me in the eyes and said to me: 'You voted for a strike while we were defending our country?' Is a few bob all that matters in this world...
...crews were at their positions 24 hours day and charged depth bombs lay on racks of the destroyers. Service planes stood by to rush the President back to Washington should a crisis arise...
...stood Italy's deplorable Balkan adventure last week, and the Greek Army joined the Finnish on a history page reserved for little fellows who knew how to fight for home and honor. But the first round seldom decides a prize fight, and beneath little Greece's jubilation lay some grim facts. Greece faced woeful shortages of almost everything that it takes to fight a war. She lacked meat, wheat, oil, coal, sugar. Her chief sources of income-shipping and tourists-were no more. Her best customer of wine, olive oil and tobacco was Germany. Only Turkey and Great...
...guts of the show were 30 hulking specimens of Milles sculpture. In the museum's court stood a plaster replica of The Meeting of the Waters. Outside the entrance pranced the equally famous bronze Folke Filbyter equestrian statue (original in Linköping, Sweden), its carefully matured green patina turned a soupy grey by orange floodlights. Inside, Tritons, mermaids, strong-faced Nordic mythological characters, Aztec-and Assyrian-looking monoliths, squirmed and writhed with the power and suppressed energy that only a master sculptor can give to inanimate stone and bronze...