Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jolly backslapper or joke-smith, he has only an ordinary memory for names and faces, seldom relaxes ("The only time I ever knew him to relax," says Campaign Executive Director Hy Raskin, "was when he took off a weekend in Atlantic City. And then all he did was to sit on someone's front porch and talk politics"). He has never married. He blends a good sense of practical politics with a fairly idealistic view of "good government." Typical Finneganisms: "Good government is good politics." "There should be a reward for those who make a consistent effort...
...Mediterranean area for a show of force against Egypt's Nasser, the U.S. does not want to use troops in a Suez flare-up, instead has been busy cautioning impatient allies and seeking peaceful routes toward settlement. The policy had for the moment succeeded; when the 22 nations sit down to discuss the Suez, there would be less emphasis on threats, more on finding a base for negotiations, including the adept suggestions this week of Gamal Nasser himself (see FOREIGN NEWS). Though he had small hope of a real decision in London, Dulles saw the conference there...
...hung from windows and pummeled each other gayly as-for the first time since May 1955-the half-century-old engine and two wooden coaches puffed through the countryside. "I've never seen anything like this!" said an amazed conductor. "In the old days the passengers used to sit glumly, never speaking to each other." But with the first day's excitement over, the Bluebell and Primrose, keeping to its required four trips a day, found itself again with only five passengers. Never one to give up, Miss Bessemer began a new crusade-to electrify the Bluebell...
Lucky Six. "A pal and I used to go see Willie The Lion at his club-the Capitol Palace-and Fats Waller at the Orient, and they'd let us sit in and cut in on the tips," Duke recalls. "Every day we'd go play pool until we made $2. With $2 we'd get a pair of 75? steaks, beer for a quarter, and have a quarter left for tomorrow." He did his own housework, including mending and pressing his tailor-made suits, always impeccably kept. Periodically, there was work for his five-man combo...
Like a monstrous egg half-buried in the ground, pierced by a twisted steel tower, the church itself arcs 110 ft. above a circular sanctuary in which 2,200 people, transported there by escalator, will sit on body-pampering theater seats around a pulpit that rises or lowers at the push of a button...