Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...background, some bystanders stood about in small groups still discussing ideas which Thernstrom and others had raised in their extemporaneous speeches. But most didn...
Politicians in both camps agreed that Kennedy stood to gain from the religion furor-so long as a counterreaction did not set in out of suspicion that he was deliberately exploiting it. Some Protestant Democrats might be roused to vote against him on the basis of religion alone in the farm belt and in the Deep South. But in the populous industrial states that he needs most of all-New York (35% Catholic), New Jersey (43%), Pennsylvania (31%), Illinois (33%), Michigan (24%), Ohio (21%), Wisconsin (32%)-Kennedy stands a good chance of winning, if he can solidify the Democratic Catholic...
...pack. Reeves was assured that he could consult a lawyer before departing, but before his aides could get through to one, the bishop was on his way to the airport, where a South African Airways plane was due to leave for London within a few minutes. Ten detectives stood around the plane until it taxied away...
...school opening loomed last week, the entire Sunday service at his Galilee Baptist Church was built around Delores. Peering down at the child, the Negro minister intoned: "But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified" (Matthew 27: 23). For three minutes the weeping congregation stood in silent prayer for her safety...
...Tugwell, gave way to the legal bird dogs of reform recruited mostly from Harvard Law School by Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. As Schlesinger sees it, the heady momentum of social experimentation had been lost, Roosevelt temporarily wallowed in "a stew of indecision." and a narrow Supreme Court majority stood poised to strike down NRA, AAA and a host of other government alphabetical agencies...