Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administrative Board is rechecking to make sure that all students put on probation in connection with the Dow sit-in were actually present in the corridor of Mallinckrodt, Dean Glimp said yesterday...
...noted that Arnheiter once drank spiked eggnog aboard, and kept a pitcher of brandy in the officers' mess to pour over his peaches and ice cream-a blatant violation of nonalcoholic Navy Regulations. At a ship's party in Guam, the skipper ordered Generous to sit cross-legged at his feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter's gung-ho tactics in combat...
...Nhut Airbase, three miles from the city. The Army also began a campaign to persuade G.I.s to save up to buy a new car when they got back home rather than spend their money at $1.35 a cup on "Saigon tea," which they must buy to sit with bar girls. As unlikely as it may seem, even that campaign has had some success. The result of it all has been a reduction by half of the income of Saigon's B-girls. Instead of the 71,000 G.I.s whom the girl industry had counted on, Operation Moose has sliced...
...blonde girl wept at the entrance because she had forgotten to register for a fall course in urban problems at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Her interest in the plight of the cities was almost as touching as her determination to sit at the feet of the New School's newest lecturer, Conservative Spokesman William F. Buckley Jr., 42. Though urbanity flowed like sarsaparilla, Buckley never did get around to talking about the cities in his first class. Instead, he led his enraptured students through a 90-minute recitative of conservative epigrams, to wit: "The main...
Haney said that Schlesinger might have had a point if the letter had been the Administration's only response to to the sit-in. "In the light of all the other things the Administration did it is a very intemperate and basically silly document. I must say it's typical of Arthur to do this," Haney added...