Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just Sit Down." When the court order comes through. Dr. King urged his followers, act sensibly but without pride. On the one hand, "we have been going to the back of the bus for so long there is danger that we instinctively will go straight back there again and perpetuate segregation. Just sit down where a seat is convenient." On the other hand, "I would be terribly disappointed if any of you go back to the buses bragging, 'We. the Negroes, won a victory over the white people' ... I hope nobody will go back with undue arrogance...
Images of Money. Gold is one, the daemon of the Venetian genius, as Mary McCarthy sees it. Not only does it glint from painting, palazzo and cathedral, but from the hard surfaces of the Venetian mind as well. It was typical of the Venetians to sit out the first three Crusades except as close-bargaining transport agents. How explain the paradox, asks Author McCarthy, of "a commercial people who lived solely for gain-how could they create a city of fantasy, lovely as a dream or a fairy tale?" Her answer is as tantalizing as her question: "There...
...remain should be thankful, while we eat turkeys that were sold at a supermarket in little frozen bundles. We sit in our rooms, where once the wild gobblers stalked wild berries and where wild Indians stalked early Americans...
...East war, believe that to some degree the conflict has destroyed Egyptian military potential. Egypt's air force has been practically annihilated, and many of her tanks and other armaments have been destroyed, they reported. Furthermore, they stated, Egypt probably realizes now that Israel will not sit meekly by while the Arab states arm for her destruction...
...attitude back home left the Eighth Army barely enough men to man its single trench line. "Its people were at least 50% deficient in fighting experience . . . The Eighth Army was a mobile army, but for lack of manpower, it was compelled to use the implements of mobility simply to sit and survive . . . The fighting which resulted seemed like a deadly form of shadow boxing." Marshall gives a harrowing example: eight 7th Division newcomers went out on patrol one warm night, expecting "no sweat"; all eight were later found dead in a circle, shot in ambush by a foe so close...