Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williams seems incapable of anger or depression. He talks softly and easily in private conversation, smiles often, and listens courteously with apparent interest. There is an aloof informality about him, creating an air of casual righteousness. He tends to sit impassively and listen, occasionally murmuring a reply. Williams talks with amusement about himself, but at any mention of criminal law, he quickly becomes animated...
...game. Quarterback Rick Norton, a $300,000 bonus rookie from the University of Kentucky, had been intercepted six times in five games. The Miami offense was averaging only 14 points a game, and the defense was taking a pounding. "Those poor boys no sooner come off the field and sit down," sighed Coach Wilson, "than the offense loses the ball right back again...
...sunny days when quick winds tumble through the Yard the prettiest girls use the place as an open-air run-way and half-skip, half-slide down the steps, patterns of light and shadow changing on moving legs. Often several girls sit to one side, running fingers languorously over the cut-stones and listening to the bells of Mem Church roll in unhealthy sound...
Five Cambridge mothers, with four children in tow, staged a sit-in yesterday outside the offices of Howard Johnson, president of M.I.T., to dramatize their demand that M.I.T. join in the fight against the Inner Belt...
...were the rule in every Radcliffe dorm. But as an economy measure this fall, only one dorm in each of the three Houses continued the tradition. The others served buffet, Harvard style, which turned out to be so popular that Cliffies grumbled about being forced to eat sit-down because of overcrowding in the buffet dining rooms...