Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arends of Illinois as minority whip. Ford, facing a party bitterly divided on issues of age and ideology, appealed for peace in the language he knew best. Every one of the 140 Republicans in the House "will be a first string player,' he promised. "Nobody is going to sit on the bench. All will be 60 minute players from the beginning...
...master at fuzzing over policy conflict with position papers and embracing obviously incompatible views in a single breath--gracefully avoiding commitment to both. He manges to maintain some semblance of unity among politicians who may have no more in common than the side of the aisle on which they sit. His argument, in effect, is that people with widely varying beliefs can belong to the same church (Republican), as long as they pay the minimum measure of respect expected of God-fearing men -- attendance, dues, or perhaps merely resting on Sunday...
...dramatize the point, a group of non-students including Savio established a Conscientous Objectors' table right next to the ROTC table. Fist fights broke out with fraternity hecklers, and 75 students responded by staging a sit-down. It was then that the Vice-Chancellor, Earl F. Cheit, dispatched nearly 100 sheriff's deputies and university police to arrest six non-students, among them Savio, for trespassing and creating a public disturbance. When students attempted to block the police bus carrying Savio and the five others away, three were arrested...
...Toronto Lawyer Arthur Maloney, 46. But Diefenbaker's fiery oratory, which once had propelled the party to the greatest election margin in Canadian history, this time failed to rally the delegates to his cause. As the Toronto Globe and Mail put it, "The audience didn't just sit on their hands; they checked them at the door...
Divorced. By Ann Clark Rockefeller Pierson, 32, elder daughter of Nelson: the Rev. Robert Laughlin Pierson, 40, Episcopal clergyman jailed after a 1961 Jackson, Miss., sit-in; on grounds of "incompatibility of temperament"; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico...