Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their willingness to let packagers control much of their entertainment fare) put in question the ethics of the television industry in general. For the first time, the U.S. was forced to think about the philosophy that lies behind the picture tube as well as the character of those who sit in front...
...Mikado. The very variety of the season, he thinks, is a tribute to an audience that cheerfully accepts City Center's small-scaled, tightly budgeted productions. "I don't have to do all the work for this audience," says he. "They don't want just to sit back and feel gorged...
After the sweeping Conservative election victory, the Daily Mirror stridently proclaimed its continuing prominence as the favorite newspaper of Britain's young people. "Sit back, folks," it cried last week on Page One. "Why is the Mirror read by more people than any other British paper? The answer is-it's gay. Buoyant. Moves with the times . . . The accent is on youth...
...union and the industry agreed to sit down together here tomorrow...
...been waiting for just such straight talk. Diario sold out all over Havana, and congratulatory calls from across the island jammed the paper's switchboard. Editor Jose I. Rivero went home to find the place flooded with flowers from well-wishers. One group of women offered to sit in front of the Diario building to guard it against any attack. Editor Rivero, ringing up 6,000 new subscriptions, followed through with four more columns of editorials and a little box noting the subscriptions with the headline: THANK YOU, FIDEL...