Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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There was a rare irony in Kennedy's West Virginia predicament: he had pegged his campaign to primaries to prove he could be a winner. Yet he stood in danger of being knocked out, or badly hurt, in a state that proved very little about the other 49. The West Virginia primary itself is meaningless. It does not even bind the delegates. Said Kennedy glumly at week's end: "If I lose in West Virginia, it'll just throw the race open to all the contenders-including myself, I believe...
Song sent a loudspeaker Jeep into the streets with a suggestion: let student leaders come forward to form a delegation to see Rhee. Fourteen responded. Song chose five and personally escorted them to the presidential mansion. There, as Song stood by beaming paternally, the students told Rhee: "The only way to solve the problem is to hold new elections-and also for you to offer to resign...
...Turk could tolerate such a taunt. Deputies scrambled over benches to fight. One man stood in his tracks, weeping with rage. Police rushed in, and the session adjourned. Later the majority formally voted to expel Ismet Inonu, leader of the opposition, hero of two wars. President of Turkey from 1938 to 1950, for twelve sessions...
...Communist regime was so disturbed that it tried to censor all mention of the riot, and the secret police dogged the footsteps of foreign newsmen. But at the corner of Marx and Lenin streets the cross still stood, protected by groups of angry women-emphatic evidence that the faith of Poland's Christians is still a force that the Communist bosses challenge at their peril...
Nasser was getting wide support even from his rivals in the Arab world. Tunisia, Jordan and Iraq unions backed the boycott. U.S. commerce would suffer slightly and Nasser's United Arab Republic stood to lose some badly needed machinery and wheat. In Manhattan, the federal courts had refused to interfere, and on Pier 16 the pickets trudged on, ignoring a plea from the State Department that such "an effort by a private group to apply pressure publicly with a view to bringing about shifts in the policies of foreign governments is embarrassing to our government's foreign relations...