Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking at the problem with a different perspective, Senate Republican Leader Knowland struck another note that would impress many readers of the Yalta papers. Said he: "If the disclosures dis courage two or three nations from thinking they can sit down behind closed doors -with no responsibility to their elected representatives and to the people-and proceed to parcel out nations and people without their consent, they will have served their purpose. Whether it be at Yalta. Potsdam or Geneva, a useful purpose will be served if every official who participates in negotiations realizes that he has an ultimate accounting...
Stalin vaguely agrees he will order his military planners to sit down with their U.S. counterparts to work out a common war against Japan. But he is eager to get to the "political conditions...
...have their admirers and both have done much to warrant the adulation. In this case, those who ventured out to see the lovely Miss Cass will be considerably better rewarded than the Shaw fans. For only if a person has never read the play, might he be able to sit back and accept the Canterbury Players' interpretation. He might not enjoy the evening much but neither would he be moved to rebellion...
...quoted as saying: "Bulldogs sit and brood-he never plays . . . Jock is the most disobedient dog-he just doesn't give a damn . . ." Perhaps I may have said all those things in an hour's time. However, I am most sure that I also said a great deal more about this lovable old breed. A bulldog is the most sociable, most lovable thing in the world. They love to play. They are mule stubborn, but not disobedient...
...Night Hawk. A restless sleeper, Cartoonist Clark often gets up at 2 a.m. to plod back to the cluttered 6-by-8-ft. cubicle in the eight-room Manhattan apartment where he works. Says he: "It takes me at least six hours to warm up. I sit there trying to work and wondering what I've been doing all these years that it should still come so hard to me." Finally a situation or a gag comes to mind. He starts sketching, often works for twelve hours running to finish the week's supply of six cartoons...