Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attitudes: zealous advocate of European economic union but holds U.N. in deep contempt. ("What right have Krishna Menon and the other curly-heads got to lecture us? Must France sit and listen while Ibn Saud talks about democracy?") Has no intention of asking additional U.S. aid for France: "We must do things by ourselves from...
...shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then Franco's civil guards marched into the shipyard and put out the strikers. Because they had broken their work contract (in Spain, as in Russia, any strike is illegal), the sit-downers were summarily fired. In addition, the government-run labor syndicate cut off their unemployment benefits and wiped out their seniority rights...
Therefore, when Strom Thurmond arose on the Senate floor at 8:54 one night last week, his fellow Southerners had every reason to expect that he, like the rest of them, would make a brief, denunciatory speech and then sit down. They were wrong as they could...
...arts and architecture magazine called Dornus (Latin for home), which has an international circulation of 40,000. "Father's enthusiasm is contagious," his daughter Letitia says, explaining how it all gets done. "If he is thinking of a new water basin, not one of us could just sit down and forget water basins. You just have to set your mind to what father is thinking." This in itself is a formidable assignment, for Ponti generates ideas from the moment he bounds out of bed at 6 a.m. and shouts for his usual breakfast of smoked beef and mineral water...
...Short, tight skirts-fashionable women are not supposed to walk or sit...