Word: stood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...decided to play it safe. "My primary concern," he said candidly, "was with what it meant as far as the Democratic Party in Ohio was concerned." Stop & Go Man. Before leaving on a Mexican fishing trip, California's Pat Brown stood by his determination to take his 81 delegates to Los Angeles without any commitments. Pennsylvania's Lawrence, whose 81 convention votes could put the nomination in Kennedy's lap, still opposes him and remains, in fact, the one Democratic boss with the strength and prestige to put together a stop-Kennedy ticket. Says Lawrence (who leans...
...Perry Smith, 31, broke down under questioning, were arraigned last week on charges of murder. In November, they confessed, they drove to the Clutter farm in the middle of the night, entered the house through an unlocked door, herded the Clutters into a bathroom at shotgun point. Hickock stood guard over them while Smith futilely searched for the imaginary safe...
...priest disappeared inside his two-story house, and soon a crowd gathered around it. Finally, a window flew open, and there stood Father John clasping a small bottle in his hand. "Take it!" he cried, flinging it down. "Now you can laugh. Now you can gossip. I do not care any more. I have taken poison and am dying." When they got to him, he was already unconscious, and shortly he died...
...running civil war of spears and poison arrows between the Balubas and the Luluas, more than 60 were killed. Once the Balubas had been serfs of the ruling Luluas. But now, being more numerous, they stood to emerge as the leaders of the provisional government in Luluabourg. Enraged, King Kalamba of the proud Luluas ordered the Balubas to pack up and leave the region. When they refused, the Luluas attacked, screaming, "Benyi baye kuabo" (Strangers go home...
While troops stood guard through the capital city of Vientiane and three armored cars stood outside the royal palace, the military junta drove to a meeting in five sleek, black Mercedes and designated General Phoumi Nosavan, 39, Inspector of Armed Forces, as the military strongman of Laos. A government official, urging newsmen to remember that Laos was a Buddhist and basically peaceful country, said: "Please don't dramatize the situation. It's a coup d'etat Laotian style, and not on the South American level. It's all en famille. No bloodshed...