Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Without a note or chart or map, Kennedy stood with his back to a roaring fire and proceeded to analyze the U.S. political situation from top to bottom, from Kennebunkport to Ketchikan. His facts were encyclopedic: he knew the people, the problems-and had ideas about what he hoped...
...Billy happily gave Director Katz a conducted tour of the treasures that will soon be his. The statues dwarf their diminutive owner. In the entry Hugo Robus' green bronze Song seemed about to chirp a childish "May I take your coat?" At one side of the powder room stood Nadelman's painted bronze Woman, attentive as a lady-in-waiting. At the other side arched Robus' rainbowlike, semi-abstract Woman Washing Her Hair. The washroom offered a brace of sporting dogs by Hunt Diederich, and in its paneled lounge stood Epstein's mournful, supplicating Hannah...
...Churches), the synod was willing to let bygones be bygones. As Bishop Dibelius put it: "These utterances date from a time now 30 years past and can be explained as part of completely different conditions. Since then I have always, under jeopardy of my own freedom and life, emphatically stood up for Jewish fellow citizens...
...rainy evening in 1881 a weary, bewildered girl of 17 stood in the middle of London's bustling King's Cross Station. A moment before she had stepped off the train from Sheffield, and now she wondered how in the world she would ever thread the maze of the vast city to the house where she had taken service as a nursemaid. Just then an elderly, well-dressed woman with a kindly face stepped up to her. "Can I help you, my dear?" she inquired. Off they went-but not to the right address. They went instead...
...could be brought to trial (penalty: two years' imprisonment). Suddenly the Continental whoremongers found it convenient to get their fresh recruits from foreign fields, notably England, where, as Author Terrot puts it, "any child of twelve was legally competent to consent to her own seduction." (Exception: if she stood to inherit property, she was protected until she was 21.) In 1875 the age of consent in Britain was "with extreme difficulty" raised...