Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Chinese World, President Chiang Kai-shek received a cable deploring Lei's arrest as "one of the great mistakes of your career." And even within Chiang's government there were those who doubted the wis dom of the move. For by this blunder, the Nationalists stood to jeopardize much of the sympathy Chiang's regime had built up slowly and painfully in its years of exile in Formosa...
...week's end, as expected, the big squads of Russia and the U.S. stood one-two in the unofficial team standings in the 1960 Olympic Games. Top moments of the Olympics' second week: ¶ In the high jump, the U.S. thought it had its surest gold medal candidate: Boston University's lithe John Thomas, 19. holder of the world record at 7 ft. 31n. Confident as ever, Thomas seemed reluctant even to take off his sweat suit for early jumps. When the competition began in earnest. Thomas seemed safe enough. The best man of the challenging trio...
...Scripps's sons were over six feet tall," Howard has recalled, "and he naturally had a preference for tall men. When I stood in front of him, 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing about 115 Ibs., he pushed his glasses up on his forehead and said: 'My God, another little one.' " Replied Howard: "Yes, but maybe a good one this time...
...away in Helena. Mont., another Liberty (or Justice, for no one seems to be quite sure) has also had her experiences. About 20 years ago she blew over on her side, and when she was stood upright again, the Montana secretary of state-an avowed enemy of Anaconda Copper-took the occasion to have her copper coating changed to aluminum. This caused quite a bit of talk for a while, until politically powerful Anaconda paid for having her tan restored...
...musician's collaborator, he was himself alive with music, using dummy tunes of his own invention to coax his words along toward a completed lyric. Hearing some of these mock-up melodies, Richard Rodgers staggered backward in amused horror, but he stood in awe, too, of Oscar Hammerstein's enduring awareness of the music all around him, from the observation in Oklahoma! that "all the sounds of the earth are like music," through The King and I's invitation to the dance-"On a bright cloud of music shall we fly?"-and ultimately to the exultation that...