Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd was good-natured and generally cooperative throughout the afternoon. A speaker on the podium would occasionally start chants of "Sit Down," when too many people were obstructing others views...
...Then they also talked to the youngsters who came wandering through their doors. But they did so mostly in large groups, shaking hands and giving the V sign where they knew it would gain them door-to-door canvassers in the next election. Nonetheless, they weren't ready to sit down for serious discussions about the issue...
...much time spent on any one subject." Hence the short spots. Also, "Nothing loses them faster than an adult full-face on the screen just talking." Hence the Muppets, the graphics and the film clips. "We try to keep verbiage to a minimum," Palmer adds. "If you sit and talk straight at them, kids think you're giving them Walter Cronkite...
...Year of the Pig is a new kind of chiller movie. Audiences sit in helpless frustration watching scenes of unreeling historical horror. Producer-Director Emile de Antonio (Point of Order) has taken his ghoulish episodes from newsreels made in and about Viet Nam over the past three decades. The result is a slanted but devastating account of the spiraling American involvement in Southeast Asia...
...angry at discovering my picture on the front page of Wednesday's CRIMSON -above an article entitled "SDS Members Protest 'Racism.' Plan sit-in." Where were the SDS'ers? After spending a fruitless half-hour trying to figure out if I could sue you for anything-misrepresentation of the facts, slander, or something-I decided that the words and the picture were mine, and that perhaps a simple letter to the Editor would set the record straight...