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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debatable grace of the traditional sit-down meal is being largely forfeited at Radcliffe this year for lack of takers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Limits Sit-Down Meals | 10/31/1966 | See Source »

...passing of still one more remnant of gracious living was marked last Thursday when, in response to sparse turnouts, North and South House Committees decided to limit sit-downs to Wednesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Limits Sit-Down Meals | 10/31/1966 | See Source »

...Fortune Cookie. Director Billy Wilder has taken the very rash risk in this film of spiking his big gun. In Cookie he keeps Jack Lemmon, a funnyman-in-motion who lacks the instincts of a sit-down comedian, sitting in a wheelchair that makes him seem foolish but never funny. With Lemmon immobilized, only a miracle could save the show from being as sedative as Wilder's last picture, Kiss Me, Stupid. Fortunately, something like a miracle is at hand: Walter Matthau. A magnificent comic actor too long misused as a minor cinemenace, Matthau last year played such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Illegal Mind at Work | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...numb a mastodon. Willie plays it go, man, go. Borrowing against his hocus hopes, he picks up a fastback Mustang, a sackful of custom-tailored suits, a foxy set of fox furs for his fat-kneed wife. And when the insurance lawyers are ready to bargain, Willie makes them sit on wastebaskets and haggle like rug peddlers till in collapse they agree to pay his client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Illegal Mind at Work | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Clearly the faculty, meeting once a month, will not be able to draw up concrete plans for the courses that will be discussed. Small groups of professors will have to sit down for long hours together to figure out precisely what each inter-departmental course would teach. They should begin as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Doctor's Debate | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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