Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nava defeats Smoot in the May 31 runoff, he will become the first Mexican-American ever to sit on the city school board. That, for the pocho, would be a major step from self-pity toward self-representation...
News editor Ray Mungo, who Thursday threatened a university-wide sit-in if Case did not allow the paper to elect new editors by next Tuesday, is out of town writing an honors English paper and was unavailable for comment...
...into walkie-talkies about the whereabouts of "Volunteer," the code name for Johnson. Whenever he moved, they literally shielded him with a wall of bodies; they even decided to remove the 1,430-lb. chandelier that hung over the conference table around which Johnson and the other Presidents would sit. Offshore was anchored the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Wright, whose communications room contained the hot line to the Kremlin just in case some international crisis arose during which Johnson might want to talk with the Soviet leaders...
Everything in Massachusetts, it seems, including questions of life of death, has an eerie way or revolving around politics. Nine men-one of whom just arrived this week-sit in the shiny, antiseptic cells of Walpole prison's Death Row awaiting electrocution. Whether any are executed within the next six months or so could well depend upon the governor's political ambitions and the amiability of the Executive Council...
SMALL dinners are usually stuffy affairs. People sit uneasily around the table and present the Name with stock questions. And the Name, who needs only about three minutes to decide that held better forget about eating, painfully replies with careful answers. No one learns very much. On occasion, if the Name is unusually relaxed or the wine is particularly good, or the cigars 15 inches long, Himself will explain how he got started and what it was like...