Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Louder & Louder. While his blue-helmeted men stood bored guard duty on sweltering street corners and dusty village lanes. Dag Hammarskjold dickered endlessly with the Congo's erratic politicians. Encouraged by the mercurial remarks of Premier Patrice Lumumba as he wended his way home from the U.S., the Congo government became more and more insistent on the departure of Belgian troops from their bastion in Katanga...
...month ago, they summed up his ailment as "only a touch of pneumonia in the left lung." That evening Castro put on an army jacket and sat up in bed to reassure a TV audience that his doctors had merely ordered him to rest. A fortnight ago he stood in the rain to address a rally in Cuba's eastern mountains, remarked hoarsely that he still was not well, and vanished again. This time his doctors announced cryptically that he needed not only physical rest but complete mental rest as well. Castro was moved to secret seclusion...
...Between Thomas Morton and Morton Sahl, most political satirists shielded themselves with pseudonyms and fought with fairly heavy steel. Charles Farrar Browne, city editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, set himself up in mid-19th century as the cracker-box philosopher Artemus Ward, announced that the D.C. after Washington stood for "Desprit Cusses," and advised President Lincoln to fill his Cabinet with show-business types since they would know how to cater to the public. Mark Twain was often deserted by his light touch when he contemplated politics, though he contributed a pair of memorable definitions: a Senator is someone...
...Albert Bierstadt's seascapes and John F. Peto's trompe-l'æil, each of the gallery's rooms is furnished with authentic Early American chests, tables and secretaries. Guarding the gallery's main entrance is the 10 ft. pine statue of Justice, which stood atop the courthouse in Barnstable, Mass, and was lent by Shelburne to the Brussels World's Fair...
...sounded for a few raucous moments as if Mickey Mantle had popped up with the bases loaded. While the performer stood transfixed, boos, catcalls and whistles filled the warm night air. Occasion: an open-air performance of Aïda at Verona, during which Soprano Antonietta Stella committed the unpardonable sin of muffing a high C in the difficult third-act aria O patria...