Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sinai, it was like a game," he says with an almost puzzled smile. "The tanks and planes sit there, and you go boom-boom--like practice. The air war is very clean, you know. There are no bodies. Sometimes you see soldiers running, no more. In Syria it was more difficult--lots of anti-air-craft." In Syria it was also less anti-septic, for Nadav at least. Returning from runs, he flew through the smoke spiraling off of Ayeleth's burning fields and storage bins. "I thought the whole kibbutz was burning," recalls Nadav. "It made me very...
...House was deeply disturbed by the Republicans' rising criticism of the war, but no more so than was Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen. Aside from the fact that he approves of the Administration's policies, Dirksen believes that it is good politics for the G.O.P. to sit back quietly while Democrats cut one another up over Viet Nam. Thus, when the White House asked him to see whether he could rein in the rampaging Republicans, the Senator from Illinois was more than willing...
Last week, however, as the pollsters reported in with ever brighter portents for the G.O.P., Lindsay suddenly became quite vocal. Visiting Washington for a meeting of the President's Commission on Civil Disorders, of which he is vice chairman, Republican Lindsay agreed to sit down with reporters from several newspapers for a "backgrounding" session...
...where a teacher-dominated professional advisory commission consults with the superintendent on all matters relevant to the education of students. Pittsburgh teachers even get extra pay to develop new ideas on curriculums and texts. In Chicago, union representatives meet monthly with the school superintendent to discuss educational policy and sit on curriculum committees...
...inclined to suffer strikes, especially those that help to clear away excess inventories. Union attitudes have stiffened both because the labor market is tight and because of increased militancy on the part of the rank and file. Most union members are in a better position this year to sit out a strike. A Detroit striker who is drawing benefits from the United Auto Workers and has some money in his bank account was inclined to welcome the chance to watch the World Series on television and to take to the woods for Michigan's fall hunting season...