Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand ready-now and at any time in the future-to sit down with representatives of Hanoi, either in public or in secret, to work out arrangements for a just solution," said Rusk. He also deplored the fact that civilian casualties had resulted from U.S. raids against military targets in the North, but noted: "I would remind you that tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, wounded or kidnaped in South Viet Nam, not by accident but as a result of a deliberate policy of terrorism and intimidation by the Viet Cong...
...made mistakes, of course, but we are determined to correct them. We're proud of our programs, and we're going to keep improving them. If any of you think I'm going to make the kids in the Head Start program, the poor, the undereducated, sit at the second table, you're crazy...
...only one other session with Johnson, this time at the Texas ranch while the President was conferring in the dining room with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, whom he had just named Ambassador to the United Nations. For 40 frustrating minutes Hurd watched L.B.J. get up from his chair, sit down, get up, pace the floor, tug at his ear, rub his nose, wipe his brow-in short, do everything but sit for his portrait...
...fellow who does this happy bit of humanizing for Bobby is Bill Minkin, 25, a Brooklyn College television instructor. Neither he nor his three collaborators plan to quit their jobs to go into full-time comedy cutting; but they have a little cushion to sit on. In three weeks, the record has sold 450,000 copies and become one of the hottest singles of the new year...
...problem with Cinerama is that the movie is invariably anticlimactic after the unveiling of the screen. You sit in the immense red-upholstered theatre listening to a six-track stereophonic overture, surrounded by a 160 degree are of curtain. The overture fades, the lights dim, and as the projectors start to roll, the red curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curving until it begins...