Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without the prestige and power of old, the princely life went quickly into decline. Many princes now sit in their drawing rooms amid moldering Victorian knickknacks, with the swords and shields of their martial caste decorating the walls and the reproachful gaze of full-length ancestors in oils staring down on them. Others converted their palaces into hotels. The Rajmata's former kingdom of Gwalior is now a quiet, ordinary part of the state of Madhya Pradesh. The lavish royal guest house is a Girl Scout training center, and the main palace is a museum that charges...
...victory earned him, is enough to keep De Vicenzo comfortable in his suburban villa in Ranelagh, 15 miles south of Buenos Aires. "I work for the money I need," he says, "but other money I don't care much about. I am old, and I just like to sit...
Much of the book takes place in Shenanagan's Lounge Bar, where the three men sit around after work, drinking and listening to passages from the book of pornography that Jacet is writing in his spare time. He has at home a "nicer wife, nicer children and nicer au pair girl." It is the au pair girl (later Nicer O'Pair) who, like Earwicker's sleeping daughter in Finnegans Wake, stirs the men's fantasies of commingled lust and guilt. At other times they worry about work, dream about traveling; sometimes timetables rip like trains through...
...wonderful and have such a high quality of service, as much as it means that these agencies are so scattered in the community that nobody realizes that they are here. These private agencies are run by boards of directors, and I wonder how may residents of Roxbury sit on these policy-making boards...
...make the long trip, the feminine merchants from South Viet Nam paid their own plane fare, while the U.S. Agency for International Development picked up part of the balance. In class, the little women sit daintily on the edges of their chairs avidly scribbling notes on U.S. management techniques into their big red notebooks. "We want you to remember," they were told by Stuart L. Mandell, professor of marketing at Lowell Technological Institute, "that you will have to face many factors in business, but the biggest factor is you-the boss." It appeared, however, that they were pretty well aware...