Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Standing in the Sun. Since then Salumu has used the gendarmerie to keep Stanleyville in a perpetual state of terror. Fortnight ago he herded all 600 of Stanleyville's whites into an open field where they stood for hours in the broiling sun awaiting an "identity check." Passengers arriving by air were searched on arrival, then forced to stoop down and pick up their wallets and other belongings that Salumu's men had thrown to the ground. Daphne Parks, a consular official of the British embassy, was slapped twice by gendarmes, who then unzipped her dress. Priests...
...home of friends. Lloyd Foreman hesitated about bringing his little girl to school again. "Frankly," he said, "at this point, I don't know what they might try." Jim Gabrielle's boss told him-mistakenly-that his daughter had been shot. Daisey Gabrielle, ostracized by her neighbors, stood fast. "Neighbors change," she said. "Principles...
...with the rise of the absolutist monarchies in the 17th century, Gelasius' finely balanced dyarchy was shattered. Between Pope and King stood a saint who took 309 years to be canonized, Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine (1542-1621), whose influence reached far beyond his lifetime. His was a time of upheaval; Galileo was turning the old earth-centered cosmos upside down, a new national consciousness was breaking up the Holy Roman Empire, and the "heresy" of Protestantism was digging in throughout the world. As one of the greatest polemical theologians in his church's history, Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine...
...right mood. Through loudspeakers came the false notes struck by a small child practicing the piano. In one nook were three white hens, in another a gypsy fortuneteller. A green hose snaked through the various rooms, a bicycle hung upside down from the ceiling, an old-fashioned time clock stood guard at the door. With such zany flourishes, surrealism came back to Manhattan in force for the first time in 18 years...
Throughout the day, many people appeared unsure of what Tocsin stood for. The term "unilateral initiative"--where the United States would take considered and controlled steps to reduce tensions that might lead to nuclear war--was confused with "unilateral disarmament"--where the United States would immediately give up all its nuclear weapons...