Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether he was strong enough to commit treason against the U.S. 'A man that doesn't know in one split second,' Floyd said, 'whether he can commit treason against his country in my opinion is not qualified and doesn't have the right to sit in the house of representatives voting on legislation that would affect my life or any other Georgian's life...
...summoned all 50,000 union members in all of Saigon's industries to a one-day general sympathy strike. But few responded, and at week's end the pressure was coming from the other side: Premier Ky applied some pressure of his own, asserting that "strikes and sit-downs should not take place in wartime" and the strike was quietly settled...
...people for understanding, acceptance, and to become an integral part of the nation's thinking." But Breuer also sees the memorial, whose design F.D.R. Jr. finds "brilliant," as "very much a part of the land itself - a place in which to relax, to stroll, to sit around, to contemplate." It will cost from...
...Yorkers considered wastelands of crime-ridden greenery, Hoving turned showman, scheduled a round of events, each "a little bit swinging." He brought in a computer to mate girls and boys in Bryant Park, proffered 50 beer at band concerts, sponsored miniskirted fashion shows, got 75,000 people to sit on the grass and listen to the New York Philharmonic at night, and flooded Central Park on Sundays with bicyclists by banning cars. His "happenings" in the park inveigled hundreds to paint murals on canvas, fly kites for prizes and watch for meteor showers...
...told her, 'Julie, this is stolen time-time I can't really afford. So there can be no time for politeness, and you mustn't take offense, because there aren't any second chances in the theater. There isn't time to sit down and do the whole Actors' Studio bit. We have to start from the first line and go over the play line by line.' " And so they worked, Julie rehearsing, Hart cajoling, pleading, threatening. "You're not thinking," he would say. "You're just oozing...