Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whacking cops with rock-filled purses. Striking miners closed down 21 pits in the always tense Asturias area, and 7,000 textile workers staged a one-day walkout in Barcelona. Steel workers struck a major cold-rolling plant in Bilbao. Elsewhere, Spain's burgeoning industries were bothered by sit-ins, walkouts, and slowdowns...
Boys were scarce, girls rarer still on this first Vanished were the feminists of the years, who only recently had threatened sit-ins or worse within the hallowed halls...
...back to Yonkers," he tells Tina at first, "I'm going to build me a house with an asphalt garden, with no leaves, no trees, no grass and no jungle. I'm going to build it right next to the race track, and I'm going to sit at home all day drinking beer and watching the television...
...sports at the annual dinner of Washington's Touchdown Club were having too high a time to sit still for speeches. So they hoped that Illinois Freshman Senator Charles Percy, 47, would keep it crisp when he rose to deliver an encomium to Everett McKinley Dirksen, who was the club's honored guest. Like a Big Ten cheer leader, Percy waved flash cards bearing each letter of Dirksen's full name. " 'E' is for Effectiveness," he began, and proceeded to expatiate on how effective Ev is. Then: " 'V is for Valor." By the time...
...kitchen stove in Battle Creek, Mich., where he had gone to boost his strength in a sanitarium run by his future rival, John Harvey Kellogg, creator of corn flakes. Post followed Postum up with Grape Nuts and Post Toasties. He taught his only child the business, had her sit in on directors' meetings at the age of eleven, took her along on factory tours (and incidentally taught her boxing). When she married Socialite Edward B. Close in 1905, she brought Father along on the honeymoon to Italy and Egypt. She and Close had two daughters, Adelaide and Eleanor. Marjorie...