Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...face that seemed to pull each smile back into a lined, discouraged expression. He bade farewell to Tomas and Salazar, turned to climb the ramp into his plane. Then, as if suddenly aware that he was headed home, he stopped after three steps; his face sagged, and he stood still for a full four seconds. Then, with an effort, he pulled his shoulders back, and turning to face the airport crowds, he grinned and clasped his hands together overhead. The crowd applauded and cheered, and Ike turned again and slowly mounted the steps...
These were the first bugle notes of a cacophony that would be heard all summer. Until the summit collapse, the Republicans seemed in good control of the peace and prosperity issues. They may still be when all the dust settles. Where stood the peace issue now? Pondering the situation, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton could only shake his head: "It hasn't jelled. It hasn't jelled...
...Khrushchev had a handpicked, wildly cheering audience of 8,000 Communists. Standing beneath a banner reading END THE PROVOCATIONS OF EISENHOWER AND ADENAUER, Nikita cried, "There was perfidy on the part of the American President. I repeat the word perfidy-there is no other word for it." Then he stood by, frowning, while an interpreter read the remainder in German. A strange note of resignation ran through it. His new theme: wait, and take it easy. He complained darkly about U.S. militarists, but added, "We will wait for negotiations. If the next President will not negotiate, then we will wait...
Real estate is costly in the mountain valley that houses Caracas, but the hill called La Roca Tarpeya, considered too steep for building sites, long stood barren right in the middle of town. Now an ambitious young builder is covering the rock with a cap of concrete and glass to form a spiraling, 25-acre commercial area worth $30 million. Architect Jorge Romero Gutiérrez, 36, calls his project "the helicoid," or spiral. In the two years that construction has been under way, Romero has spent $16.5 million, and last week the helicoid was 60% finished...
...week's end, 21 villagers abruptly surrendered; each swore that he was the one who had actually finished off Park. Scores of others stood by chanting "We too, we too; either punish all or none." The caretaker Huh Chung government promised another "investigation." But the guess was that the lynching at Shinwon would be sadly written off as an unhappy aftermath of the long wrongs of the Syngman Rhee regime...