Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly know how to go on. It's one thing to have fifteen or twenty people shouting a lot of questions at you at once. It's an experience, I might say, that I've got quite used to. But it's another thing to sit down and try to think up both questions and answers...
...everyone knows, Ambassador Herrick carried this latter proposal personally from French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg (TIME, July 4). The refusal of Mr. Kellogg to sit down to diplomatic tea for two with M. Briand and his subsequent invitation to all nations to sign a multi-power pact has constituted one of the most distasteful rebuffs suffered by French diplomacy since...
...wind blows, and Londoners sometimes come for picnics. In the winter it is deserted and sinister-looking but on one day a year nearly a million people drive from all over England to see the race. Motor buses park along the last mile of the course and the spectators sit on top of them drinking champagne. This year as usual they bought luck-charms from gypsy peddlers, cheered the Prince of Wales, waved their hats at the King, and shouted as the horses went round to the start. Lord Derby's Fairway was favorite...
...convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through any change of expression in that State's delegates, but by cheers or booes from other delegations. The delegates whose votes have shifted will sit quietly, having done nothing but what they were told to do by their Boss. Seen off the floor, however, convention delegates look just like so many everyday citizens assembled to compare calmly, discuss intelligently and express independently their individual opinions as to who should be President...
...seating arrangement is tactical, not alphabetical. This year, Maine's delegation is front-and-centre. Front right (facing the rostrum) is California; front left, Pennsylvania. Behind California will sit a string of western delegations. Behind Maine are the other New England States, then New York. Behind Pennsylvania come Ohio and other Midwesterners. Southerners are relegated to the rear...