Word: sat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost too frightened to choose a seat, I finally remembered Malcolm X's dictum and sat facing the door. They clustered around me and smiled. They were of three different worlds...
...what kind of personnel the Salmagundi might have. Just before we got there, my roommate-chauffeur-driver asked about a football. "Did you bring a football, Beach?" I didn't have much to offer in the way of an answer, but since everyone was looking at me as I sat there crunched in the back seat, I felt I had to say something. "Ah," I said. Actually, it was a pretty informative reply. After I got verbally castigated by my teammates, driver Dan pointed out that the home team is suposed to provide the ball...
...when I sat down with food and drink at that tavern in Ithaca, New York, and when I heard the dull roar of the drunkards, the crude jests, the easy women, I began to love the men that had admitted Cornell into the Ivy League...
...while I fumbled with the tape recorder began to tell me about "Bidette" Soon he invited Mr. Milton Bryson, marketing director, to join us. Both men, in their late forties, were gentle, friendly and open. Mr. Clark spoke quickly and motioned about the room with his arms; Mr. Bryson sat calmly and punctuated his colleague's remarks with careful, precisely-worded observations. Obviously they didn't think of themselves as manipulators of American women. They considered vaginal odor a real problem and felt their products were essential to good hygiene...
...Scotland and revisiting most of the sites of Mary's life. During the third year, pregnant with her sixth child, she sometimes toppled over when lifting heavy index files in libraries, and once fainted in the British Museum. Six weeks after the birth of the child, she sat down in a little study partitioned off from her bedroom and in seven months wrote the 250,000-word manuscript. Drafts in progress were pinned to her husband's pillow at night with a note: "Mark an X where you get bored." Her neck became dislocated from the constant typing...