Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court trials and small-bore insurgency in his organization, unabashed by proven connections with gangsters both in and out of his heavily muscled union, Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa bounced confidently into Washington last week and, with one single stroke of his fist, made the whole U.S. labor movement sit up and take notice...
...every tourist knows, London's horse guards take the vow of silence on duty. As they sit majestically astride their mounts in Whitehall, children may taunt them, cameramen may pop flashbulbs in their faces, and tourist guides may speak about the guardsmen as if they were not really there. The guardsman is under orders never to move a muscle except to control his horse, never to speak except to summon a policeman or foot sentry "if something happens." For almost 300 years it has been that...
...gathered impressions for postwar columns in the Vienna New Austria. On audiences at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (where his son Herbert has been a longtime stage director): "Each year a new generation of Mammon families is educated for attendance at the Metropolitan, where the young lady learns to sit in a box with the cool expression of a rich heiress and look at the stage as if she were packed...
...Adams looked up wordlessly as a smile brushed his face. Even his closest friends could not tell whether it was anger or chagrin or guilt-as well as a sense of having failed the Administration-that whipped his mind. "He is not the kind of guy that can sit down and bat it around," said a staffer. "Even with his close friends, he can't be personal...
...Most of the world," said Lawyer Rhyne, "doesn't know the International Court exists. It has 15 judges who sit at The Hague waiting for work. It has decided only an average of slightly more than one case per year since its creation in 1945. The entire court, or even a chamber, should sit rather constantly at U.N. headquarters. The law then would move more to the forefront in the deliberations of the U.N." He added: "Let the free nations of the world agree on a plan to snuff out war among themselves before the next step of tackling...