Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly, the Soviet idea has a great deal of appeal. If only Eisenhower and Bulganin could sit down and talk, the arguments run, a settlement could be reached. The less ambitious scheme of the United States will probably be attacked by large segments of world opinion. Yet it is by far the better way; there are few easy solutions in international politics...
Three of the chairs will be the same, but the occupants will all be new. In Stalin's place will sit Commissar Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Union's Premier, but not undisputed boss as Stalin was. Anthony Eden, alumnus of Yalta, expects to sit for leonine Winston Churchill. For the U.S., Eisenhower will sit in the place filled by Franklin Roosevelt. The new chair will belong to France, represented at none of World War IPs summit conclaves. Occupying it will be owlish, cautious Premier Edgar Faure...
Even in stolid Milwaukee Smokey Alston found himself managing a teamful of unexpected trouble. Jackie Robinson, his uninhibited veteran third baseman who had barely stopped popping off about how seldom he was playing, came forth with a new idea: he thought he ought to sit out a few games. Milwaukee, however, was no place for Robinson to rest. His visit had already been disturbed by a process server. Last season, in a fit of pique, he had slung a bat into the Milwaukee stands. A couple of local customers, who said they had been hit, were suing...
...found it would need at least 29,000 new classrooms, but only about 5,000 have so far been built. While migrations from the rural areas have left half-empty schools in the south, those of the north are jammed to overflowing. In Limoges, some lycée students sit three to a table; others have to use their knees as desks. In Rouen, classes meet on stairways, and in Le Mans, students must share a building with the local Garde Républicaine...
Aside from the volunteers, who now come to the ward every weekday afternoon, these particular patients have little to break their monotony. Infrequently they do have access to the limited "occupational therapy" facilities, but generally they just sit--waiting for volunteers, bedtime, and meals. Meals, according to an occupational therapist at the hospital, are "quite a sight." "The food is mainly bread and macaroni," she bitterly explained, adding, "The patients are herded to the cafeteria, or rather to the mess hall--and I mean mess...