Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a hyperactive student. Besides having a variety of part-time jobs, including baby-sitting and house cleaning, she works on the Stanford Daily and helps run the university's International Center. Peggy has had to sit through interminable and often emotional discussions of Viet Nam and hear her father's policies attacked. She is as cool an opponent in these sessions as she is at bridge, which she plays with skill and determination. Guy moved to California, after graduating from Georgetown last June, to be near Peggy, who was taking summer courses at the university. They have...
...turned night, about 45 minutes later, the line still had not moved although the march monitors were pleading with marchers to start walking. Then a small group of about 30 sat down and urged all those around to sit down also. In a few minutes about 150 marchers were sitting down, singing "W eshall not be moved...
Something must be done to stop the trend; we cannot afford to sit quietly as Harvard drifts into complacency. Last year, despite the efforts of a cadre of agitators, the best that happened was the near trampling of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara...
Pearson plans to sit tight for a while and watch Stanfield in action. Then he will decide whether, at 70, he wants to confirm his leadership by calling new elections (he has until the fall of 1970) or convene his own party convention and let power pass to a younger leader...
...consequence, impossible for me to sit back and examine the mo rality or immorality of contraceptive practices without thinking at the same time of the immoral and frequently criminal conditions that the simple act of conception can produce in the course of time...