Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairnie, the owner, prefers it that way. His shop is run for enjoyment and makes money only as a sideline; if he never sold a book all year, he would keep it open. But Gordon has plenty of company when he opens up each afternoon. Students browse or simply sit down in one of his easy chairs to read. A somewhat small, pink-cheeked man with a gray line of a moustache, Mr. Cairnie usually sits in the far corner of a well-worn leather couch, skimming a catalogue or perhaps talking to a tutor, a Cambridge poet...
...same girl reported that in the lunchroom of the school she had witnessed a Negro boy sitting alone. "A white girl and boy of very high quality asked the Negro if he would like to sit with them," she said. "He got up, grinned at them, and I believe that he was very happy that they had asked him," she continued...
...excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants [the blinds] left dirty. The forest bird is his only Venetian-blind moment, though if one has mastered a sort of scooping motion, one can manage a few slats while Brünnhilde ho-yo-to-hoes . . . Parsifal makes me want to sit down...
...passport"). The Committee on Un-American Activities has named the boy's parents as Communists. They have left the party but refuse to finger their friends and are sentenced to two years in prison. Finally, fed up with FBI "persecution" of the boy, the king decides to "sit it out in Europe," suggests as the film ends that the "hysteria" in the U.S. is a passing phase...
Smith's rugged iron works are too brutal to sit comfortably close together in the whitewashed, antiseptic setting of museum walls; they look best against the rolling mountains and lakeshore on which his Lake George studio faces. His Man and Woman in Cathedral (opposite) was jigsawed out of steel plate with an acetylene torch. "The name came merely because of the male and female in a vertical structural relationship." says Smith. "I named it afterward. The structure seemed kind of gothic, so that's how come 'cathedral.' When I work I don't name things...