Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesser offenses, Denaburg says, "They have a hell of a lot of whiskey houses operating in niggertown. It doesn't really hurt society for Negroes to sit in a house and drink whiskey and have skin games. They're not bothering anyone else besides themselves...
...geared to an accepted urgency to teach everything to every student that it permits little opportunity for development by the faculty of presentations with distinctive personality and philosophy. An occasional lecture here, seminar there, does not engender the kind of teaching experience which brings the students to sit at the feet of the scholar, nor does it stimulate the teacher to mull over, reconsider his facts and premises, view his special area from all sides and interrelate his cherished intellectual offspring with other currents of contemporary thinking. In short, our present system does not provide those features which can make...
...waterfall and swimming pool fed by a diverted mountain creek. While clearing the sites for the new pulp mills of Prince George, Ginter thought ahead and bought up swatches of land in the hills overlooking them. "When those pulp mills start producing," he says, "that stench is going to sit right down there in the valley. And people are going to start scrambling up these hills to build their homes. And they are going to build them on my land...
...seething tangle of Middle Eastern intrigue, that is precisely what Nasser does consider it-and he is determined to frustrate Feisal's call to Mecca just as he torpedoed the fourth Arab summit meeting, which was to have been held this month, rather than sit at the same table with Feisal's "forces of reaction." Increasingly, the Arab states are being called to line up on one side or the other, Nasser's or Feisal's. Nasser is still the name to conjure with in the streets of the Middle East, but Feisal can offer hard...
...could assume that the two-China policy would be accepted immediately by the Nationalists or the communists especially in view of the difficulty of deciding who will sit in China's permanent seat on the Security Council. But the policy remains the strongest alternative to the policy of categorical non-admission...