Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many books no longer sit on shelves, waiting to be read. Nowadays, books -as well as plays and poems-speak out loud. For a survey of the latest of this sort, see BOOKS, The Spoken Word...
EVERY illness of the President teaches that one-man government in the United States is dangerous and that Cabinet government cannot long be delayed. The simplest solution lies in the formation of a Presidential Council, which would be created by law and would give the Chief Executive, to sit at his side, at least five persons who have been nominated by him and been confirmed by the Senate. These five men would be freed from the responsibility of administering any of the departments of the Executive branch, as Cabinet secretaries do today...
...Coach Jordan Olivar cleared his bench, but the subs, bent on letters (for one minute in the game), did as well as the varsity. The only Harvard boys who seemed able to outplay their opponents were in the fine Crimson band. And at the end, even they had to sit in sullen silence while Yale's musicmen blared away with Goodnight, Poor Harvard, and the big Bowl Scoreboard bragged about the biggest victory "The Game" has ever known: Yale 54, Harvard...
...carmagnole in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. With near-genius she manages to use Paris for the special and highly logical purposes that will occur to a little girl's mind. There is the chance to go swimming in the fountain of the Place de la Concorde, to sit at Fouquet's and wash one's feet with soda water (like T. S. Eliot's Mrs. Porter), or to turn that strange little porcelain convenience in the hotel bawthroom into a private swimming pool for one's favorite turtle. The fun has worn a little...
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 1--President Eisenhower will return to the White House tomorrow and hopes to sit in for a time on an afternoon Cabinet meeting...