Word: sit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation. Dalton offered a concession: Britain would agree to a European "conference" to meet publicly (once a year for three weeks), but the delegates must still be bound by the instructions of their governments. Up from his fragile chair popped Paul Reynaud. "You would find no one willing to sit in a pseudo-parliament of this nature," he cried. "It is paradoxical that the mother of parliaments should propose the formation of such an authoritarian assembly...
...keep at his writing, Porter had his piano raised on wooden blocks so that he could sit at it in a wheelchair. Then he was on crutches for years. He can get around now for short stretches without a cane, though he usually carries...
...million small ears overheard King Frederik IX of Denmark admonishing his nine-year-old daughter Margrethe at tea one day last week: "You've got your feet on the table. Sit properly." "I do sit properly," Margrethe answered back before she obeyed...
...time of her life. The old-guard Seattle Symphony Orchestra board had finally agreed to sponsor the orchestra for the rest of the season and happily ever after. Among their concessions: two musicians (for the rest of this season at least, a clarinet and a French horn) could sit on the board...
...fact that TV children's programs are so generally good is regarded by most parents as a happy byproduct. What matters is the revolution caused by TV in pre-bedtime habits. Instead of racing noisily through the house, kids now sit and stare and listen in sober silence. It may or may not be good for the children-but it is certainly a welcome change for mothers & fathers...