Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor, with a 651-vote plurality: beefy, convivial Herbie Cartwright, 44, who did nothing to contradict the quietly spread word that vice might be revived again. Clough, 68, who ran a poor third in the four-way race, was rebuffed but undaunted. Said he: "I am going to sit on the sidelines and watch the people suffer for their mistake. May God have mercy on Galveston...
...week's end the advisers and supernumeraries departed, and a four-man team from both management and labor got ready to sit down this week to begin the serious bargaining that will result in a new contract-or a strike...
...purge of Sänger rankled West German papers of widely varying political persuasions. "Scandalous," cried the non-partisan Protestant weekly Christ und Welt. "Our newspaper publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent...
First Beep. With this work well underway and no satellite launching expected for some time, Van Allen was not a man to sit around idly. He got aboard the Navy icebreaker Glacier and headed for Antarctica to measure cosmic rays near the South Magnetic Pole. On Oct. 4, when the Glacier was wallowing southward across the Pacific, a report that the Russians had launched a satellite came over the ship's radio. Van Allen went to work on the Glacier's 20-mc. receiver, and within half an hour it yielded vigorous beeping sounds. That was Sputnik...
...merrily: "England picked up France, Germany picked up Italy. Then Italy's Nanny said she had fallen down and grazed her knee, running, and mustn't play. England picked up Turkey, Germany picked up Spain, but Spain's Nanny said she had internal troubles and must sit this one out. England looked towards the Oslo group, but they had never played before, except little Belgium, who had hated it, and the others felt shy. The party looked like being a flop, and everybody was becoming very much bored, especially the Americans who are so fond of blood...