Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seriously." When he heard about the formation of the Sons of the Desert shortly before his death, Laurel suggested that the club should maintain only a halfway dignity, and that "everybody have a hell of a lot of fun." As Laurel liked to tell his disciples: "Don't sit around and tear comedy apart. It is like a fine watch, and you'll never get it together again. And don't ask me why people laugh-that is the mystery...
Bliss's attempts to give the senior Party greater control over YR activities were completely rejected by the convention except for one allowing two non-voting GOP National Committee representatives to sit on the YR executive board. And even Bliss's proposals were compromises with Van Sickle on stronger recommendations of the Alcorn Report, which had been unanimously adopted by the senior GOP National Committee...
...with them." Nonetheless, with a popularly elected government in power, with political stability reasonably assured, and with the army concentrating on the war, the less intransigent members of the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front may decide sooner than anyone expects that the time has finally come to sit down and talk...
...make for a lecture hall and sit in the shade of the podium. Emerson Hall is recommended for this time of day no matter what is being given there; it is air-conditioned and the chairs are soft...
...McNamara incident, however, the tenor of protest has shifted. An increasing number of students--many of whom are not members of SDS, the University's leading New Left group--have resolved on an afirmative sort of protest. Last year, only a handful of Harvard students were involved in sit-in demonstrations at U.S. Army bases and a smaller number burned their draft cards. Now almost a quarter of the undergraduates have either signed "We Won't Go" pledges or requested the government to institute "conscientious objector" status on the basis of an individual's dissent from a specific...