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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: D. C. Protest Generally Peaceful; Over 250,000 Demand End To War | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: The Game Politics and the War | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public TV: The Forgotten 12 Million | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Propaganda Chiller | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Diorita G. Fletcher, | Title: The Mail NOT 'SDS'ER | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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