Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain was mobbed by his teammates after his clutch basket, but the game was not over. Dartmouth called time and the fans had to sit through a two-second anti-climax that lasted about ten minutes...
PPPM. The U.S., as leader of the free world, could not comfortably sit by while Moscow made its grandstand play for the imaginations and loyalties of the world's youth. National student organizations were proliferating everywhere, and in 1950, N.S.A. and 20 other groups formed the International Student Conference as the West's counterweight to the aggressive International Union of Students, a Communist-subsidized youth front. The logical instrument of U.S. policy was CIA. The agency institutionalized its direct financial support of N.S.A. under its PPPM (Psychological, Political and Paramilitary) program, in 1952. William Dentzer...
...regents' meeting, Kerr asked Board Chairman Theodore Meyer and Vice Chairman Dorothy ("Buff") Chandler to his office, told them: "If you've made up your mind to get rid of me, January is better than February." With the financial situation fluid, he later explained, "How could I sit at a table and negotiate when the people across the table had set a time bomb under me to go off Feb. 15 and they knew it, and everyone in the state knew...
Finley speaks fondly of his boys, "this wonderful stream of undergraduates. Students are fun for me, pure unadulterated sunshine. Rather than sit next to a Mrs. Jones at some second rate dinner party, I much prefer to talk to the crazy nut from Topeka who drives a motorcycle, and is bright but is getting an E in Physics...
...saccharine even by the standards of the traditional Harvard sex story, so Stephen and Maria, "two very unordinary students," share a special relationship which features endless avowals of their love (the word is used a record thrity-three times) and a never-to-be-equalled scene in which they sit, naked, in Stephen's living room, listening to Beethoven. Not surprisingly, they retire to his bedroom as "Beethoven erupted in his finale." It is said that the story is a parody, but the author's intention is nowhere revealed. If it is meant to be a parody, it fails because...