Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bailey put on his own medical witnesses to cast doubt on Helpern's testimony and to deride the possibility of crime by hypnotism, his major strategy was to impugn Marge Farber.* Throughout he described her as a woman scorned who lived only for revenge on Coppolino. "She would sit in his lap in the electric chair," said Bailey, "just to see that he dies." When Coppolino moved to Florida, Widow Farber and her two daughters followed, settling in a house next door. Bailey developed testimony that Marge wanted to marry Coppolino after his first wife, Carmela, died in Sarasota...
...Commission will probably ask for minor changes in the structure of the more than 4000 local boards without questioning the existence of the local boards. The five men who sit for two or three hours a month as a local board often do not represent the people they classify. It is unfair to claim that only a representative body can do justice, but it is doubtful that the boards in Mississippi, where no Negro sits on a draft board, or Chicago, where board members often do not live in the neighborhoods they serve, can avoid some off-hand bigotry. Besides...
...things that Bond, 26, a Negro pacifist and civil rights worker, has on his mind -sympathy for draft-card burners and extreme opposition to the war in Viet Nam - proved highly unpalatable to the Georgia house of representatives. Twice this year house members voted against allowing him to sit among them as the duly elected member from Atlanta's 136th Legisla tive District...
Misery hates company, or so it seems for most of the play. Full of inbred Southern prejudices, the girl calls the man a "nigger" and won't sit at the kitchen table with him. Full of the critical disdain of the educated, the man sarcastically mocks the girl's looks, grammar, vocabulary and dim wits. Gradually, their plight draws them together, and Playwright Westheimer achieves moments of mirth, poignance, compassion, and interracial rapport...
Most fun of all for Capote, who has played at giving fantasy parties since childhood, was to decree that everyone should wear a mask. The whole point of a bal masqué, he explained, "is to ask anyone you want to dance and sit wherever you want, and then, when the masks come off at midnight, you can find out who your new chums are, or join your old chums." In October the invitations went off, and suddenly Capote was swamped with pleading messages from those whom he had left out. "I feel like I fell into a whole mess...