Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spaak has been sounding out three squabbling NATO partners-Britain, Greece and Turkey-begging them to settle their agonizing, paralyzing quarrel over Cyprus, which has all but broken up NATO's defenses in the Eastern Mediterranean. He was not even able to get the participants to agree to sit down together at a conference table...
...Good question. What is Brainstorming? All right, here's the bit. We sit here and we think, we take the problem right by the horns and chew on it. All together. The bit is to spill anything that hits you. Shout it out, take the ball from one man and keep it bouncing, keep it talking, let it flow...
Leland replied, "I had more important things to do than sit behind a ballot box. It's just that no one else was available to do it. I asked Larry Ekpebu to help, and he refused...
...parties, banquets, concerts, and other social gatherings demands the stamina and inexhaustible vigor of a man who has pledged himself to the difficult task of winning friends and friendship for his country. "When I get tired," he says, "I take a walk in the fresh air, or else I sit down for a while and just think. Thats' enough...
Comedian Gleason (CBS), more energetic than ever after slimming down from 284 Ibs to 220, forgot to put the same pep in his format. Only fresh element to appear is Rumdum, who gets thrown out of saloons in pantomime; otherwise Gleason has retreaded the old sit-bys, e.g., the Poor Soul, Reggie Van Gleason III. (Reggie also crept into Gleason's performance of Joe, the philosophical boozer, in Playhouse 90's otherwise first-rate production of William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life.) Perhaps Gleason's worst mistake: replacing Art Carney and Audrey Meadows...