Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agency chiefs should "periodically and personally" make sure that they have assigned "high caliber" persons to sit on hearing boards...
...house from memory. At work he can identify only three colleagues: one very tall and thin, one with two moles, one with a facial tic. The rest tell him their names, point to the tools they want him to pass. In one parlor game, J.S. excels. When the husbands sit under the table and try to identify their wives by their feet, he simply tickles each pair of feet until he recognizes his wife-by her laugh...
Figueres similarly initiated Nixon's visit to San José by telling reporters that he would "never sit down with that Somoza," but he also wound up by assuring Nixon privately that he would "go more than halfway" to head off any more tension. The publicity Nixon turned on them may well keep them peaceful-for a while...
...plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the missing volume. Some of these men go so far as to sit on a book all afternoon so as to be sure of having it later on. There is no need of explaining why such practices as these are disgraceful. Inasmuch, however, as some students are not acute enough to see it, it is well to explain to then that no gentleman...
...room for four men, forcing Cohen and Rittenberg to race each other for the only other point the Crimson scored in individual competition. Coach Bill McCurdy saved his middle distance aces, Dick Wharton, Renny Little, and Alan Howe for the mile relay. But anchor man Dave Alpers had to sit out the meet with a back injury and the new team, with sophomore Zab Warren replacing Alpers, was nearly six seconds off its usual pace finishing fifth...