Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic Steel plants remained in partial operation. These as well as Youngstown plants which were held by company maintenance men, were soon virtually in a state of siege. The size and isolation of the plants, which made sit-down strikes virtually impossible because of the difficulty of provisioning strikers (TIME, March 1), made equally difficult the job of feeding company men in the plants. Soon Republie had airplanes shuttling back and forth, landing in the yard of one plant, dropping food on others where landing was not possible. Airplanes of the strikers performed fancy aerobatics trying to drive...
...Wrigley Field, President David P. Fleming of the Los Angeles Angels last week installed an innovation to make their baseball games more attractive: a clubhouse section behind third base where, for 25'' each, customers can sit at 40 tables, eat and drink in comfort while watching games...
During Chairman Wheeler's absence his place has usually been taken by Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whose practice has been to sit ruminating while the committee's lawyers ran the Van Sweringen show. But a time has come in almost each day's testimony when Senator Truman has felt impelled to bring his palms down whack on the green covered committee table and speak his mind-in virtually identical terms: "These hearings have very plainly brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week...
...their actions are the expense of capturing Madrid and pushing the Loyalists into the sea, and the value they place on the friendship of a rearmed England. Statements to the press indicate that Franco will get aid for one smashing blow before he is permitted by his mentors to sit down to a bargaining table...
...book has double meaning for anyone who has studied under Mr. Lowes. If there is one poet who has written in English in the past three hundred years, surely John Keats is that poet on whom nearly everyone agrees, extremist and sit-tighter alike. Why, then, in an age in which so much competent minor poetry is being written, is Keats as a model so consistently neglected? Or is he? Perhaps the answer is that he isn't, but that he translates badly, not to say unrecognizably: that our modern verse idioms, bizarre, swift, and impatient, are incapable of carrying...