Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Never trust a guy who smokes a pipe. They sit around and look thoughtful, but all the time they're figuring how they can steal a hot stove...
First of all, said Wagner, it soon "became abundantly evident that no young American could reasonably be expected to sit through one hour staring at the same face on the same small screen. Classroom TV is supposed to 'quicken an interest.' In fact, nothing turned out to be more dampening than the flickering image of an elderly teacher, looking weary and unshaven under the television lights. Jokes fall flat, emphasis is missed, and the lack of any personal relationship proves stultifying...
...finest social comedy of its age, Holiday has special appeal for us today: it presents pre-echos of the Horatio Alger story, champions the ideals of democracy (even the King proclaims that "love respects no blood, cares not for difference of birth or state"), and contains the first labor sit down strike in drama...
Ciampa stated last night that he was planning two types of programs for Club members: an active and a passive one. The former will entail taking active part in various political campaigns in this area. Those in the passive program will sit and listen to guest speakers, he said...
Philip Murray, McDonald's predecessor as the Steelworkers' president, always geared his thinking to the inevitable strike, as a Washington labor specialist points out, but McDonald always thinks ahead to the inevitable settlement. Emphasizing the mutual trusteeship of labor and management. McDonald persuaded negotiators to sit around the table to discuss this year's contract−instead of across the table from each other. Then he suggested that the table be taken away altogether so they could just sit around. Even on the eve of the strike, the worst thunderbolt that McDonald could think of to hurl...