Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a formal White House dinner, the New York City Center Light Opera Company regaled the 180 guests in the East Room with songs from Broadway musicals-including Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat, a number from Guys and Dolls sung by that inveterate crap-shooter and horse player, Nicely-Nicely Johnson. Not to be outdone, Imelda rose during a reception for the U.S. President at the Shoreham Hotel the following night and sang Because of You in her native Tagalog, aiming every inflection at a radiant Lyndon Johnson...
...only look right; they smash the formulas of sex comedy. They sleep through situations that usually call for sobby sentiment, squabble when they should be snoring, sulk when they should be squirming. Altogether human, thus seething with quirky surprises, they satisfy the primal need of festivalgoers who forever sit down in darkness hoping that small miracles may come to light...
...possible paths for Jack's presidential bid, because he had to face one issue after another and was bound to lose some favor with every vote. Bobby believed that Jack could more effectively advance his career as Governor of Massachusetts, but J.F.K. scorned the job. "Who wants to sit in a corner office of the statehouse," he asked, "and hand out sewer contracts...
Kinsey insisted that he had tried to hold her still to prevent further injuries -it was this appearance of struggle, he claimed, that the African eyewitness saw. Kinsey finally had to sit on his wife while he cradled her head in his arms to stop her from smashing it against the rocks. He tried to carry her downhill, but, after falling several times, he placed her in the shade with her head elevated to lessen the bleeding. He then ran down the hill in search of help; what he found was the African farmer and his friends, who gave...
...this year, Abt's contracts come to $650,000. And Abt sees plenty of chance for more. Too much of business management training is "inefficient and outmoded," says Abt, because the trainees are forced to sit idly by and watch others. "People like to act," says Abt. "They like to make something happen." They also like to play games...