Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laurent, for years a quiet voice of moderation at such get-togethers, had just resigned office and been replaced by Tory John Diefenbaker (who turned up on schedule). Racist South Africa's Strydom refused to come for "personal reasons" which many ascribed to an unwillingness to sit down with-or to be photographed with-the new nation of Ghana's Negro P.M., Kwame Nkrumah. New Zealand's Sidney Holland was laid up with a slipped disk. Ceylon's Solomon Bandaranaike was busy at home fighting a civil-disobedience campaign. All three sent substitutes...
...explorer to go soul-searching in the jungle. Dr. Ewart Clausen, a famed Norwegian scientist, has renounced the world for his bush clinic at Luala, in French Equatorial Africa, and has become "a secular saint in the humanist calendar." From the far corners of the earth pilgrims come to sit at his feet; he proffers a bag of sticky bull's-eyes, advice, and the magic of his presence...
Know Thyself. In Luton, England, Thomas David Bolter, onetime sergeant major, was acquitted of being drunk and disorderly after he told the court his drinking capacity was "18 pints when I sit down," replied to the prosecutor's question, "Well, and what about when you stand up?" with "I fall over...
...done by dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who hopped about clinking glasses in an unpracticed attempt to work up a bit of gaiety. Perhaps he was still smarting under Bulganin's description of him to the Finns: "Quite a nice chap, but one of those fellows who will sit around all evening at a party saying only two words and next day will say 'What a wonderful time we all had last night...
Allen's hunch was right: no one recognized Strickland. Working up to 20 hours a day, he toured bookie joints by day, gambling houses by night. His technique was simple. "You have to sit there at the bar and drink a beer or two or they'll get suspicious," he says. "I tried martinis at first, but you can't drink many of them and know what you're doing. I've got beer running out of my ears...