Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, who bypassed 48 governors, 96 Senators and two men of Cabinet rank, to land just below the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. House Speaker Sam Rayburn will also eat higher up on the festive board this year, jumping over foreign ambassadors and widows of former Presidents, to sit, a Texas Democrat, just below former Presidents. Reason: the speaker of the House is second in succession to the presidency. Lower at the table this year: Harold E. Stassen, the President's special assistant for disarmament...
...right outside, Ken McIntosh, whose ball handling and playmaking stood out in the Tufts game Wednesday, might have to sit out today's game with a charlie-horse in his back...
...hesitate to spell out the point of his stories: e.g., the idle boy is almost invariably poor and miserable; the industrious boy is happy and prosperous. Dr. Ullin W. Leavell, "senior author" of the Modern McGuffey Readers, realized that today's schoolboy is too sophisticated to sit still for such out-of-date preaching. The Golden Rule Series only suggests the principle in its stories, lets the teacher bring out the point in discussions. The stories are built around eleven moral themes selected by Leavell and American Book: cooperation, courage, fairness, friendliness, honesty, kindness, patriotism, perseverance, responsibility, reverence...
...Janus, a four-passenger, one-cylinder, 14-h.p. car from the Zündapp motorcycle factory. Both front and back of the car open; the passengers sit back to back, with the motor under and between them...
...next day he tries to sell the saddle cinches his wife has woven; the patron will not buy. He tries to sell his turkey; the patron throws the bird out the door. Desperate, man and wife sit down by the roadside, and he tells her he must go away. Somewhere there must be work to do-or things to steal. In silence she suckles the child. His face softens. The spring of life is flowing still...