Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian diplomats no longer display their old volubility on the subject. Gromyko at first insisted on talking separately to the Moscow ambassadors from the U.S.. Britain and France, then refused to hold a joint preparatory conference unless Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia were allowed to sit in too. The air was now being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status of the satellites, the reunification of Germany. ¶Foreign Minister Gromyko's formal charge that the U.S. Strategic Air Command constitutes "a threat to peace," because it sends bombers armed with hydrogen weapons flying toward...
...take over a lavish, $8,000,000 brain trainery, equipped with special labs for independent student research. Last week the joyous grind for next year's scholarships continued; Math Department Chairman Irving Dodes dismissed a class studying symbolic logic, said wearily and wonderingly: "I can't sit down without kids coming in, pestering me for advanced math books or trying to prove the impossible. It's a continual effort to keep up. Every day I go home tired-but happy...
...prepared to sell you one million Jews. Blood for money: money for blood. You can take them from any country you like, where-ever you can find them. Whom do you want to save? Men who beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell me." Brand sat down...
Koby said he "would sit by and see what happens" in the matter...
...Paul Rome was appointed to design the pavilion. On a 153,000-sq. ft. plot just across from the U.S. pavilion, they built a high plaster wall around Civitas Dei. Inside is a slope-roofed church with a capacity for 2,500 standees (only the aged and infirm may sit), a 200-seat chapel and six smaller chapels. The pavilion also includes a restaurant for 2,000 and a three-story display building. Besides numerous Masses and multilingual confessors, attractions will include a 40-yd. mock-up of the catacombs, an exhibit of "the vital problems that frighten mankind" (which...