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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were concerned only with my own popularity or my own poll, that wouldn't be the way I would go about it-to suggest higher taxes or more wars. But you have to do what is responsible, and you have to do what is right if you sit in this place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Consensus of a Different Kind | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Dean Ford last week posed a constitutional objection to Magraw's suggestion that students sit on Faculty committees. "It's not at all clear," Ford said, "that the Faculty would have the right to constitute a committee with other than its members represented...

Author: By Bruce Springer, | Title: Student Power | 10/11/1967 | See Source »

More Sophistication. Officials at both Northwestern and Columbia are reluctantly going along with the revival of all-Negro fraternities. After fighting to get white frats to drop discriminatory practices, Columbia administrators find that some Negroes do not consider fraternity life with whites worth bothering about. "They just sit around and drink beer and exchange old exams," complains Marvin Kelly, a member of the new Omega Psi Phi Negro fraternity. "Negro social culture is much more sophisticated," argues Thompkins. A Northwestern Negro explains more simply that "instead of trying to buck the tide, we thought we would take a shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Black Pride | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Griswold, who has presided over 21 years of expansion and innovation at the nation's most venerable legal academy, will be nominated to succeed Thurgood Marshall. Today, Marshall will sit as the first Negro Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: By John A. Herfort, | Title: Dean Griswold Appointed Solicitor General | 10/2/1967 | See Source »

...fourth wall, have a variety of normal human faces. In the center of the courtroom stands an ordinary old-fashioned oaken chair. "I want to make a bridge between the spectator and the event," says Friedensohn, "but an indeterminate one. I want him to think, 'Shall I sit in it or not?' So he'll be on the fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Anatomy of an Assassination | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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