Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opera glasses. Potent heads of distinguished families deign to perform the nod of grand grandees. Fierce caballeros bristle, melt before shrill senoritas, bristle again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
Then Teacher sits down. Another sharp command. Into their places shoot the children, sit erect, silent, stock still- still and silent as heaving, panting children can sit. The panting and the heaving cease. Silence settles down over the room like a soft rain. Nerves relax. Ebulliency is gone. Repose remains. Then back to lessons again...
Patience and firmness. Show the child that you expect him to eat his food. Set it before him and make him sit at the table until he eats it all, no matter how long it takes. Start with small amounts of suitable foods and give him as much time as necessary to eat. He will soon learn to eat the amount he really needs. Never allow his refusal of food to make you angry. Perhaps he does not eat because he enjoys seeing you become irritated...
...gentlemen here Belgium has sent its representative men with power to negotiate. The question before us is of narrow compass. There are but two parties to our negotiations. Politics, local or international, are not involved. We sit here, reasonable men, around a table. Under such conditions we will soon learn each others' viewpoints, determine the true facts governing the situation, and should reach an agreement fair to your country and to ours...
Where Sultans sat with their Sultanas, gamblers are to sit with their winnings...