Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Kuwait was ruled by Sheik Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 51, who became the Amir when his brother died a little over a year ago. Nevertheless, there was plenty of politicking for seats in the 50-member Parliament, which has little real power but confers upon those who sit in it great prestige and, it is widely suspected, considerable wealth. One reason for the prestige was that most of the 468,000 persons who live in Kuwait cannot be candidates; barriers to citizenship are high for the thousands of Arabs who have immigrated since the discovery of oil. Among...
Party members in the barracks periodically conduct cleansing sessions, in which the soldier and his comrades sit around a table and discuss any improper thoughts they have caught themselves thinking. This constant self-criticism is carried into the army's upper echelons. A recruit, for example, may be surprised when a colonel walks into the barracks in a private's uniform and begins to help clean the latrine. The colonel is merely conforming to the "Officers to the Ranks" movement. When this program began in 1959, officers were expected 'to spend a month of every year living like privates...
...stop it, but it did. You see, I know the wicked flourish and all that; what kills me is the really crummy grade of wicked who flourish around here. This gang of shanty clowns has been playing the city like a slot machine for years. You can't sit still for that forever, can you? It's humiliating. It's like being goosed by the garbage man every...
...purely objective count, Buckley's apparent belief that integration in housing will come as a natural consequence of "sound moral education" is questionable. Sure, eventually Negroes and whites (with or without sound moral education) will live in the same quality housing, but can we afford to sit around until it happens? Obviously integration in housing is not very high on Buckley's list of priorities...
...religion. Surely that must be resolved before you sit down to write your "revealing probe." Is it in to believe? And in what? How do we feel about Christ? Well, let's take a look. At the beginning of the novel, He may be a way out of one heroine's dilemma. After going to church high on "benzedrin, dexedrin, nodoz" she comes home and sits down at her desk...