Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only two days after he was sworn into office, Diefenbaker flew to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. He had an audience with the Queen, and dinner at Windsor Castle; he spent a weekend at Chequers, and got a request from Madame Tussaud's that he sit for a wax statue. Prime Minister Diefenbaker flashed a happy grin, confided to a friend: "I'm enjoying...
...send it down to the Congress, and they act on it or they don't, as they please." ¶"That's the chair that I used all the time that I was President. [To Jimmy] Come around here, young man, see how it fits ... Now sit up there and go to work. When you sit down in the President's chair, he works all the time. No idleness ... He has to work nearly 18 hours a day, and then he can't get all the work done ... I had a very good time being President...
...join the clique that provoked war against the West. He once declared: "Britain, the United States and France are the setting sun. The universe will only come to life with the bright sun of great Japan flashing in the sky. Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit still and talk...
...These were good men," says Author Linna of both the dead and the living. Fate had laid the whip of defeat across their backs, but it also released them from responsibility for the future, and they were content to sit back and watch the victors destroy their victory. Says one exhausted survivor when the fighting is over and the politicians take command: "Speeches aren't going to help anything. When your powder's all gone, it's better to keep your mouth shut than to go spouting about the rights of small nations. A dog raises...
Born on a farm outside Plainview, Texas, Country Boy Dean worked at cleaning neighbors' henhouses and picking cotton. Sundays he would sit at an old upright and play religious and "inspirational" songs. After a stint as an oiler in the merchant marine, he joined the Air Force, played in base bars for $5 a night. Today Jimmy lives in transportive Arlington, Va. with his wife Sue and their two children Gary (5) and Connie (3). He gets up at 3:30 every morning, downs a breakfast of three energy pills and a Waring-blended pint of cream, two eggs...