Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russians would sit down at a conference in Geneva and start working toward a plan for monitoring bomb blasts...
Setting out on a house-to-house search for the murderers, British troops rounded up more than 1,000 males between the ages of 15 and 30, herded them into a barbed-wire compound, where they were made to sit beneath a searchlight's glare, hands clasped on their heads. The British were angry and rough, and admitted it. In the roundup, at least 150 Greek Cypriots were injured, and three persons died...
...odds, and Greece muttering about quitting NATO, Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's Secretary-General, flew to Athens, offered a proposal: a conference of all parties in a new attempt to solve the agonizing quarrel. Accepting, Greece for the first time in three bitter years showed itself willing to sit down with Turkey though denying it is any of Turkey's business...
...story that he is as strange as any of the characters he invents-one step away from the funny farm. For further evidence, his friends point to his house in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where in his black secret den he keeps a lonely chair which he considers his throne. "I sit in it and pretend," says he. "I pretend I'm king...
Eugene Langevin '61, president of last year's Union Committee, will preside at the meeting. Langevin will guide the freshman group until after the Dartmouth dance, when it will elect its own officers. At that time, it will also name three of its members to sit on the Student Council...