Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mistakes. Mao and his friends still sit in Peking, of course, steering China's overall course. But the Cultural Revolution so severely battered all normal channels of control and command-the party and government bureaucracies, the factories, farms and schools-that only the army remains with enough organizational integrity and discipline to pull the country back from anarchy. The P.L.A.'s commanders and fighters (its egalitarian bent permits no ranks) have practically taken political control of China: nearly all of the country's 26 provinces and regions are run by army men, and they are the only...
...same day that giant Saturn 5 made its triumphant and tumultuous flight, little Surveyor 6, practically un heralded, settled to a gentle landing on the moon. But last week, after faultlessly running through the familiar Surveyor photography and chemical analysis chores, the ungainly-looking craft made everyone sit up and take notice...
...book is loaded with stories of Jarrell the gamesman. He and Lowell used to sit in an empty classroom playing "Who's First?", a game in which they would downgrade fellow-poets until they were the only two left at the top. From his youth, he loved tennis and he lavishly admired professional football, spending countless Sunday afternoons in front of his TV and eventually making Johnny Unitas a figure for the poet's craft. Once, while a house guest, he lost a croquet game to some children, and his hostess detected him at 5 a.m. the next morning...
Most people, when they feel autobiographical urges, sit down and commit their story to the typewriter, or just talk to the wife, a bartender or a psychiatrist. Not Conrad Rooks. He decided to make a movie about himself. The result is Chappaqua, named after the Westchester County commuters' village where Rooks spent what he considers the only happy years of his youth (from 8 to 13). The film is an 82-minute phantasmagoric apologia pro sua dolce vita in which the ex-junkie-alcoholic takes himself into and then out of the world of addiction and related vice...
...message that the armed struggle is the only way was all too clear, and it did not sit well with some delegates from Latin American Communist Parties. After all, many of these men had spent their lives groveling their way through the political process, every now and then presenting candidates, every now and then going underground when events took a nasty turn...