Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bobby, for his part, is said to have called the President an s.o.b. and to have told him at one point: "I don't have to sit here and take that -." When the President asked him to go before the press and say that the U.S. had never received a genuine peace feeler from Hanoi, Kennedy said that unless he saw all the pertinent communications he could not make such an announcement. "I'm telling you that you can," said Johnson. Bobby, implying that the President was not to be trusted, refused to accept that assurance...
...stopping, if they are willing to do likewise, or if they are willing to make any concession. But I don't think it's fair to ask an American commander in chief to say to your men, 'Ground your planes, tie your hands behind you, and sit there and watch division after division come across the DMZ [demilitarized zone], and don't hit them until they get within a mile or two of you.' I don't think that's fair to American Marines or American soldiers. We have talked before while acts...
...reading stage this year is over. Beginning tomorrow, the 23 voting members of the Admissions and Scholarships Committee (including several Faculty members) sit down for the month of talks in which the final decisions are made. If past years are any indication, Glimp will be persuasive here...
...leader believes the difference between the two men is ideological. "Meany," he says, "represents the old school of business unionism, where the labor movement has a social conscience." Reuther grew up on the picket line. He was instrumental in organizing the auto industry and took part in the bloody sit-down strikes of the late 30's. Meany, on the other hand, prides himself on the fact that he never called a strike and has never walked a picket line himself. A labor official put it very simply. "Meany just isn't comfortable with Reuther...
...characters in a fit of rage. Colonial cafard-suffocating apathy-has set in. Nevertheless, Archie keeps up the forms of the sahib-settler's life. It is a gruesome parody of colonial ritual. There is tennis every afternoon with his daughter, after which they sit for the "sundowner" before dinner, served by a "boy" in a sashed uniform. But the tennis court has no lines, the "sundowner" is sickening peach brandy bootlegged by Dutch neighbors, the dinner comes out of cans, and the servants-sensing an abdication-are insultingly incompetent...