Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas, where Governess Ferguson sits in the executive office or allows her spouse (the onetime Governor, who was a few years ago impeached and removed from office) to sit in her place, a movement was undertaken to restore to the gubernatorial spouse "full citizenship rights...
...this opposition, however, the Croatian Peasants' Party is not recognized and will not be allowed, even if it desires, to sit in the next Parliament. The Government majority is therefore virtually 75. Once again Serbian methods have won another election ; once more the Government has scored a great victory; but, as formerly, at least half the electorate remains hostile to Nikolai Pashitch and all he stands...
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Irish Literature. "In no country where there is action is thought found. When a Nation is fighting, it is doing nothing else. And, after they have put their backs into it, they want to sit down and lick their wounds. "Great Art cannot spring out of war, at least not then. The children will do it. They are hearing their fathers and their grandfathers speak of the trials and the dangers and the heroics and the horrors of war. They are growing up in an endless story-telling of war, and out of it will come...
...When Louis XVI called a meeting of the States General, in 1789, to discuss taxation reforms, deputies of The Third Estate (the people), enraged because they were not allowed to sit with the Nobles and Clergy nor given like powers, repaired to a tennis court, where they took an oath never to disband until they had made a constitution for France. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution...