Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced that Khe Sanh cannot only be held, but that Giap will suffer crushing losses in manpower if he tries to take it. Giap's alternatives to a direct attack are either to pull back and miss his chance or to sit in the hills with his mortars and artillery and try to bleed Khe Sanh to death in daily barrages. At week's end Khe Sanh took minor shelling while the two sides waited and carefully watched each other. The U.S., slightly apprehensive, was ready for an attack?and even hopeful that Giap would strike. As for Giap...
Thursday morning, the council will "sit down" with Bridwell, the DPW, and representatives of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington to try to iron out a compromise plan for a Belt study. According to usually reliable sources, Bridwell might then announce a decision to build the Belt if a compromise is not reached...
This is a unique boycott, because it doesn't punish the discriminating institution. When Martin Luther King boycotted bus lines in the South, the bus line, under white pressure as well as black, eventually acceded to his demands that Negroes be allowed to sit in the front, and the boycott was termined. But the proposed Olympic boycott, which is aimed of course not at the Games but at the American society, would have little effect on discrimination in the United States...
...describe a "call for a bombing pause and immediate negotiations" by several U.S. Congressmen. You quote: " 'It seems to me,' said Robert Kennedy, 'that we lose nothing if we sit down to negotiate...
...private school ten miles south of Palo Alto (tuition is scaled to income, averages $900 a term), Pacific High tries to stimulate youths who found conventional education too restrictive or boring with the tempting lure of total freedom. Students choose their own hours, classes and teachers and even sit on the board of trustees. At the end of a course, they get gentle advisory evaluations rather than grades -and are encouraged to tell their teachers precisely what they think of them...