Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion in the nudist case. You have deceived your readers; you have portrayed me as a tasteless, witless and publicity-hungry exhibitionist; you have done a vast disservice to any fair public concept of the dignity and responsibility of our courts and the earnest hard-working men who sit on them. You have literally stripped me in public and have forced upon me, a justice of a supreme court, the highly distasteful and undignified task of publicly defending myself...
...cannot and will not do anything without U.S. consent. So far, the U.S. was not in a mood to give that consent. But Chiang's impatience was a sharp reminder that the West could not shelve or solve Quemoy's problem simply by demanding that its defenders sit and take it (see box, opposite), in a battle they could not afford to lose and were not allowed...
...Wheels. The "abiding" love and Scriptural wisdom of Pastor Moser (of the splinter Missionary Baptistic Church) and his co-signers are reflected by many a Southern minister.*Their use of Holy Writ to defend their position does not sit well with many ministers-even in the Deep South. But the fact remains that right now the segregationist clergymen are the ones who are doing the loudest talking. In Little Rock, segregationist clergymen are doing their best to embarrass their opponents by taking newspaper ads to ask why the opponents' own churches are not integrated, if integration is what they...
...figure there's just no sense arguing with them. They've just got no idea how things are down there. They try to sit up North here and tell us how to get along. No sense arguing with them. Just ignore them...
Goren never played bridge again with his old girl friend-but the next time he did sit down at a bridge table, nobody laughed. He was soon winning local tournaments and rounding out his skimpy law income with bridge winnings. But as soon as he could afford to, Goren gave up playing for money. He saw that the road to bridgedom's peak lay in teaching and writing-and that a gambler's reputation could be harmful. Today he plays for money only when he feels it would be rude to refuse, and the most he has ever...